Posted by Douglas V. Gibbs
Tom Foley, the Spokane judge's son who became speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, is dead.
His wife, Heather, confirmed his death Friday morning in an email to seattlepi.com.
Foley, who had been in declining health, was 84.
He will be remembered as speaker of the House in days when Congress still got things done, but never saw the speaker's chair as his life's greatest honor. Instead, it was that voters in Eastern Washington chose him for 30 years to represent them in Congress.
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-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Speaker Foley lost his seat, and thus his Speakership, in the 1994, if I recall correctly. It's rare that a sitting Speaker loses his seat.
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