When the members of the House of Representatives meet to make the laws, are they all equal or does anyone preside over them?

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They choose one of their own number, whose duty it is to preside over them while they are assembled to do business, and to see that they proceed in a regular and orderly manner in doing their public duty. He is called their Speaker.

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