• first After reciting the Constitution on the floor of the House, Republicans got to work attempting to repeal health care reform.
• but Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), however, missed the official swearing in ceremony (a violation of the Constitution).
• so That means he’s not technically a Congressman, and all of his votes over the last two days have been invalid. Whoops!
• nowJohn Boehner has to ask Nancy Pelosi for unanimous consent to retroactively validate Sessions’ votes.

• We’re having a little fun here. This isn’t actually that big of a deal; it was an honest mistake on the part of Sessions (and Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick, who also missed the swearing in), it will likely be rectified by tomorrow, and Sessions and Fitzpatrick have already been officially sworn in. Still, it’s amusing and slightly ironic that, after making a big show of reading the Constitution aloud on the House floor, two Republicans inadvertently violated it whilst on the House floor. source

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