[DOCID: f:hd204.108]
From the House Documents Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]


                     The Cannon Centenary Conference

The Changing Nature of the Speakership







                      Cannon House Office Building

                      Wednesday, November 12, 2003


    
  
  
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division      

                  Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, circa 1909









       108th congress, 2d session      house document no. 108-204
 
                     The Cannon Centenary Conference

The Changing Nature of the Speakership






                      Cannon House Office Building
                      Wednesday, November 12, 2003




                   Compiled Under the Direction of the
                      Joint Committee on Printing,
                         Chairman Robert W. Ney




                UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
                            WASHINGTON : 2004








          This conference was sponsored by the Congressional 
          Research Service, Library of Congress, and the 
          Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies 
          Center, University of Oklahoma; and funded in part 
          by a grant from the McCormick Tribune Foundation.
          Walter J. Oleszek, the editor of this document, 
          gratefully acknowledges the production assistance 
          of Daphne Bigger and Karen Wirt of the 
          Congressional Research Service and Suzanne Kayne 
          of the Government Printing Office.
          The Congressional Research Service has produced 
          six videotapes of the Cannon Centenary proceedings 
          for use by Members of Congress. The videotapes 
          cover, respectively, the O'Neill, Wright, Foley, 
          and Gingrich speakerships, as well as the 
          presentation of Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and 
          Professor Robert V. Remini.







                     House Concurrent Resolution 345


          Resolved by the House of Representatives (the 
          Senate concurring),
          SECTION 1. PRINTING OF DOCUMENT.
          (a) IN GENERAL.--The transcripts of the 
          proceedings of ``The Changing Nature of the House 
          Speakership: The Cannon Centenary Conference'', 
          sponsored by the Congressional Research Service on 
          November 12, 2003, shall be printed as a House 
          document, in a style and manner determined by the 
          Joint Committee on Printing.
          (b) ADDITIONAL COPIES FOR HOUSE AND SENATE.--There 
          shall be printed for the use of the House of 
          Representatives and the Senate such aggregate 
          number of copies of the document printed under 
          subsection (a) as the Joint Committee on Printing 
          determines to be appropriate, except that the 
          maximum number of copies which may be printed 
          shall be the number for which the aggregate 
          printing cost does not exceed $65,000.