01-06-2011, 06:44 PM
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Keeneland
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 14,153
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Nothing like violating the Constitution. Geeshus, guys ...
www.washingtonexaminer.com
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A couple of House members have been voting since Wednesday without being sworn in.
Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Thursday administered the oath of office to Reps. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, and Mike Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., who were apparently absent from the chamber yesterday when Boehner swore in the other members.
The two lawmakers nonetheless voted on changes to the rules of the House, stripping the voting rights of House delegates and slashing the House budget by 5 percent. Technically, their votes shouldn't count, but it's unclear whether their names will be removed from the roll call for those measures, which all passed with plenty of Republican votes to spare.
Sessions is vice chairman of the House Rules Committee and his failure to take the oath of office promoted the committee to abruptly shut down its debate over how to handle the repeal of President Obama's health-care reforms on the House floor. The House was supposed to take up that measure Friday.
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