{"id":13559,"date":"2014-12-08T12:09:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T20:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/rep-orwall-chosen-deputy-speaker-pro-tempore-designate\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T12:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T19:20:36","slug":"rep-orwall-chosen-deputy-speaker-pro-tempore-designate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/rep-orwall-chosen-deputy-speaker-pro-tempore-designate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Orwall chosen deputy speaker pro tempore-designate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Rep. Tina Orwall (D-Des Moines) was selected deputy speaker pro tempore-designate by the Democratic Caucus on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an honor to once again have the opportunity to serve in this capacity,&#8221; said Orwall, who was first invited to preside over the House on her first year serving the 33rd Legislative District in Olympia. &#8220;The six years that I have had the privilege of carrying out these duties, have helped me emphasize the value of civil and respectful dialogue to make sure every voice is heard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The deputy speaker pro tempore presides over sessions of the House as needed when the speaker pro tempore and the speaker of the House are unable to do so.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>As active Speaker, Orwall will be tasked with keeping the process flowing smoothly when lawmakers are debating proposals on the floor.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>As required by House rules, Orwall will be officially confirmed by the full House of Representatives on Jan. 12, the first day of the 2015 Legislative Session.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Tina Orwall (D-Des Moines) was selected deputy speaker pro tempore-designate by the Democratic Caucus on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":13560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13559"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}