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With the House of Representatives in chaos this week and only now able to finally decide on a speaker, a particularly Washingtonian parlor game had gotten underway as politics watchers fantasized about outside candidates who might somehow steer the legislature out of its morass.
It turns out that the House speaker doesn’t actually have to be an elected member of Congress — every House speaker in history has been a U.S. Representative, but all the Constitution says is that “The...