House Republicans Off To A Slow Start.....D'OH!

[Nonno]

Pete Sessions Breaks Rules, Briefly Shuts Down Rules Committee

"Call it a stumble out of the gate. Or a failure to find the gate entirely. Veteran Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and freshman Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) failed to make the official swearing in ceremony yesterday, a violation of the Constitution that has sent Republicans scrambling and briefly brought an end to the new majority's push to repeal the health care reform law.

While the rest of the House was being made official in the chamber, Sessions and Fitzpatrick were outside the room at an event for Fitzpatrick supporters. The pair reportedly took their oath to a televised image from inside the chamber. Huffington Post's Ryan Grimm reports the event was part of fundraiser for Fitzpatrick."

Read more here.

 

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... and fixed within minutes

 

[Gilligan]

Slow news day apparently..and the brain-dead one is having difficutly meeting his quota.

 

[Nonno]

It's too bad there isn't a picture of those two clowns standing in front of a SONY 52" with their right hands raised!

 

[Baz]

Must not take the Constitution very seriously, seeing as how they can only follow it when they feel like finally getting around to it.

Violating the Constitution on the very first day.

 

[ImnoMensa]

Must not take the Constitution very seriously, seeing as how they can only follow it when they feel like finally getting around to it.

Violating the Constitution on the very first day.

Although I don't like to appear in any way to agree with the native leftists in this forum, there was no excuse for their not being at the swearing in.

It is inexcusable.

 

[aps45819]

Must not take the Constitution very seriously, seeing as how they can only follow it when they feel like finally getting around to it.

Violating the Constitution on the very first day.

... and that's why the read some of it.

 

[Nonno]

... and fixed within minutes

Wrong!

House GOP Scrambles To Clean Up Sessions' Mess

"House Republican leaders will be busy today constructing the parliamentary Rube Goldberg device they'll need to briefly turn back the House clock after Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) and Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) skipped Wednesday's official swearing-in ceremony, rendering everything they did between the moment the Republicans officially took over and yesterday afternoon unconstitutional.

Roll Call reports that House Rules Committee chair David Dreier (R-CA) is planning to nullify those votes via a rule in the procedures his committee is writing for the health care repeal process, the first major vote of the new Congress which is expected to come next week. "

Read more here.