Thursday, January 6, 2011

The House of Boehner: members not leaglly sworn in



Not very impressive at all.
But on the bright side maybe the clown show image will be seeing a lot of use in the coming weeks.(years?)

Two House Republicans have cast votes as members of the 112th Congress, but were not sworn in on Wednesday, a violation of the Constitution on the same day that the GOP had the document read from the podium.
The Republicans, incumbent Pete Sessions of Texas and freshman Mike Fitzpatrick, missed the swearing in because they were at a fundraiser in the Capitol Visitors Center. The pair watched the swearing-in on television from the Capitol Visitors Center with their hands raised.


Heh!‘But I raised my hand at the TV, isn’t that in the constitutional?’

Boehner and the resulting embarrassment on the House Rules Committee vote.

They have to ask Pelosi if she will allow this retroactively by consent.
The Rules Committee hastily recessed when Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-CA) found out Sessions never took the oath, and Speaker John Boehner interrupted speeches on the floor this afternoon to swear in Sessions and Republican freshman Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (PA). But any votes either of them participated in during the last day-and-a-half could be null.

Rep.Dreier is now waiting for Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to agree to allow a unanimous consent motion to the floor to retroactively allow everything these two members have already done to stand.

Speaking of standing...there's more! They aren't exactly putting their best feet forward...

Issa marches on despite 'multiple' broken toes
Newly appointed Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is charging ahead this week with plans to investigate a bevy of issues, from WikiLeaks to food-safety regulations.

And he's doing it all while suffering from "multiple" broken toes.
A spokesman for Issa confirmed that the lawmaker recently bumped into "a corner in the house he's lived in for more than two decades," resulting in fractures to more than one of his toes.

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