As we broke last night, Speaker William Howell (R-Stafford) is set to join Gov. Tim Kaine's effort to ban smoking in restaurants and bars. According to a Kaine press release, Howell believes this is a ...

Sept. 12, 2010— -- House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, suggested on Sunday that if Republicans take control of the House -- and he becomes House speaker -- giving up his smoking habit ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has banned smoking in the Speaker's Lobby. Even after other federal buildings banned smoking, the Speaker's Lobby remained a haven for the House's smoking members who ...

U.S. House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Wednesday banned smoking from the Speaker's Lobby in the House building. "The days of smoke-filled rooms in the United States Capitol are over ...

By then, Johnson had emerged as one of the leading contenders for council speaker. Smoking has been banned in most workplaces, including 250 Broadway where each council member has an office, since ...

Remarkably, he discovered that speakers with weak future tenses (e.g. German, Finnish and Estonian) were 30 percent more likely to save money, 24 percent more likely to avoid smoking, 29 percent ...

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi banned smoking from much of the House premises when she took control in 2007, but members were still allowed to smoke inside their offices.

In 2007, Former U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi instituted a ban on smoking in the Capitol, announcing that "the days of smoke-filled rooms in the United States Capitol are over." ...