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Two new rules will give Constitution a starring role in GOP-controlled House
Substantive sincerity or symbolic lip service?
When Republicans take over the House next week, they will do something that apparently has never been done before in the chamber's 221-year history:
They will read the Constitution aloud.
And then they will require that every new bill contain a statement by the lawmaker who wrote it citing the constitutional authority to enact the proposed legislation.
Substantive sincerity or symbolic lip service?