Making "constitutional" history on the House floor

According to the House Historian's Office, the U.S. Constitution has never been read on the floor of the House of Representatives. Now, 221 years after the House officially began work and two months after a Republican landslide in the midterm elections, it will be. When the reading is finished, the Constitution will be making it first of many appearances in the 112th Congress. Naturally, the left is mocking the Constitution's new role on Capitol Hill.

For Democrat Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), reading the Constitution is Republican "propaganda" that is "total nonsense."

A new Republican rule that requires the sponsors of legislation to submit "for printing in the Congressional Record a statement citing as specifically as practicable the power or powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the bill or joint resolution" is upsetting to liberal Democrats. Congressman Barney Frank called it, "an air kiss they're [Republicans] blowing to the Tea Party."

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