There’s nothing in the constitution that dictates the method of taking the oath; it merely says that they must take an oath.
According to other stories, they already signed a written oath provided by the clerk of the house — that should be sufficient to meet the rules, but I don’t know exactly what rules the house is operating under and what they say.
The public swearing-in most certainly is NOT the one that meets constitutional muster — how would anybody prove that a person standing in that group of 435 people actually SAID the words? I’m sure the written document is what they file to prove people were sworn in.
It doesn’t shock me that this is still being talked about, because the liberal media will run with any absurd non-story it can find.
Washington (CNN) — The House of Representatives decided Friday to invalidate the initial votes cast in the new Congress by two Republican congressmen: Reps. Pete Sessions of Texas and Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania.