The 110th Congress officially adjourned on Friday. On Tuesday the 6th, the 111th Congress will commence work – at noon Eastern time if you’re keen to follow every step.
The new Congress will recite the Pledge of Allegiance and then adopt its rules of procedure. (This is what happens in the House; the Senate [...]
The new crop of bills in the House has some real time-wasters.
Here’s another bill to make it illegal to counterfeit inauguration tickets. We talked about this before.
And here’s a bill that’s none of Congress’ business.
Your elected representatives at busy-work.
Update: Here’s the new, 111th Congress version of the bill to require a fair and equitable [...]
A new bill in the Senate would outlaw the selling and counterfeiting of tickets to the inauguration.
D’ya actually think it was legal before? No, counterfeiting and selling tickets to an event like that is common law fraud, which is illegal everywhere.
But it’s nice to see some new bills after so many weeks off. [...]
So says the Washington Post.
Plenty of folks will happily take your money.
Update: More on inauguration subletting from DCist.