Two House GOP skip swearing in for fundraiser

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Nothing like violating the Constitution. Geeshus, guys ...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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.

[dellinger63]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah9W24oMIRc

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah9W24oMIRc

Yes, being late to a committee meeting is exactly like the incredible hypocritical stupidity of not attending your congressional swearing-in because you are attending a fund-raiser, then going ahead and illegally voting on issues on the floor, and attending congressional meetings (because you are not yet a Congressman, you are just any old citizen) in violation of the Constitution your party is reading on the House floor

This has threatened to delay the GOP's bringing their symbolic health care repeal theatre out of committee and to the floor of Congress.

And Michelle Bachmann has been put on the Intelligence Committee. Where she will get access to top secret information. Baby geeshus, help us please.

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Riot

Yes, being late to a committee meeting is exactly like the incredible hypocritical stupidity of not attending your congressional swearing-in because you are attending a fund-raiser, then going ahead and illegally voting on issues on the floor, and attending congressional meetings (because you are not yet a Congressman, you are just any old citizen) in violation of the Constitution your party is reading on the House floor

This has threatened to delay the GOP's bringing their symbolic health care repeal theatre out of committee and to the floor of Congress.

And Michelle Bachmann has been put on the Intelligence Committee. Where she will get access to top secret information. Baby geeshus, help us please.

Amen! It's great to know the Hipocrats err Democrats have never shirked responsibilities for personal gain... Wasn't Your Great Leader, Kim Jung Obama, made aware of the oil spill in the gulf, and subsequently blew it off to attend a fund raiser in San Francisco the next day and then blew it off again for another 2 weeks so he could go on vacation?

A little more important to the rest of the world than a retarded formality, dontcha think?




Nah... I figured.

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Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

Amen! It's great to know the Hipocrats err Democrats have never shirked responsibilities for personal gain... Wasn't Your Great Leader, Kim Jung Obama, made aware of the oil spill in the gulf, and subsequently blew it off to attend a fund raiser in San Francisco the next day and then blew it off again for another 2 weeks so he could go on vacation?

A little more important to the rest of the world than a retarded formality, dontcha think?
Nah... I figured.

"Filth of a Feather Appreciation Army"

I laughed !!

[Rudeboyelvis]

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Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

A little more important to the rest of the world than a retarded formality, dontcha think?

Nah... I figured.

You think following the Constitution is a "retarded formality"?

Yeah. I figured.

The good news is, the delinquent boys were corralled and sworn in yesterday, and there will probably only be ethics violations against Fitzpatrick for violation of campaign finance laws, not Sessions. And they've finally apologized to their fellow GOP today (not the Dems, though, strange) for screwing up the six votes each made by voting illegally.

Three days into the 112th Congress. At least Saturday Night Live, Funny or Die, and Stewart/Colbert are guaranteed plenty of material the next two years <G>

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Riot

You think following the Constitution is a "retarded formality"?

Yeah, that's exactly what I said

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

Yeah, that's exactly what I said

Do you even know what's happening in the Gulf today regarding the oil spill?

Yeah

At least when the Judge screwed up the wording of the last Presidential Oath of Office, they immediately took Obama inside and re-did it. Seriously, so there wouldn't be any Constitutional questions (and the far right wingnuts still went crazy about it)

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Originally Posted by Riot

Yes, being late to a committee meeting is exactly like the incredible hypocritical stupidity of not attending your congressional swearing-in because you are attending a fund-raiser, then going ahead and illegally voting on issues on the floor, and attending congressional meetings (because you are not yet a Congressman, you are just any old citizen) in violation of the Constitution your party is reading on the House floor

This has threatened to delay the GOP's bringing their symbolic health care repeal theatre out of committee and to the floor of Congress.

And Michelle Bachmann has been put on the Intelligence Committee. Where she will get access to top secret information. Baby geeshus, help us please.

Is that any worse than our sitting members voting on Bills they haven't read? Just to find out what's in them?

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Originally Posted by SOREHOOF

Is that any worse than our sitting members voting on Bills they haven't read? Just to find out what's in them?

Geesh, if you guys are simply going to keep repeating false things you are told to think, this room is gonna be pretty boring (yes, I'm referring to Pelosi's comments)