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The senior member of the White House is the White House Chief of Staff
Speaker of the House, which is almost always the senior member of the majority party.
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Speaker of the House of Representatives. They are normally a senior member of the majority party in the House, and are chosen by their party for the position.
A prioress is woman who is head of a house of certain orders of nuns.
Nuns can live in a monastery, and abbey, or a convent.
The spelling is "abbey" and, as with a monastery, the inhabitants may be either nuns or monks.
Teresa was a member of the Carmelite order of nuns.
The Speaker does not have to meet any qualifications other than those to be elected as a member of the House of Representatives. He is selected by the House and is usually one of the most senior members of the majority party.
Religious generally refers to a member of the ordained clergy or a member of a religious order of brothers, sisters, nuns or monks.