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Lawmakers to Read US Constitution on House Floor
Date: 1/6/2011 9:21:10 AM Sender: VOA
Lawmakers to Read US Constitution on House Floor


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Speaker of the House John Boehner swears into office the members of the 112th United States Congress on the opening day of their session on Capitol Hill in Washington, 05 Jan 2011.


Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are to read aloud the U.S. Constitution Thursday, one day after Republicans took control of the chamber.

Republicans say the reading of the nation＇s governing document is a symbolic move meant to remind lawmakers of their pledge to adhere more strongly to constitutional principles.

Also Thursday, the House is expected to take up a measure to cut spending by five percent in congressional budgets. Republicans say the move will save $35 million over the next nine months.

The new session of the U.S. Congress began Wednesday, with new and re-elected lawmakers being sworn in, and Republican John Boehner becoming speaker of the House.

Republicans, who also won a larger minority in the Senate, are vowing an attempt to repeal U.S. President Barack Obama＇s health care reform law.  Boehner has called the health care reform law a "job-killing" measure and says it is too costly.

President Obama said in a message posted on the social media network Twitter Wednesday that Republicans are determined to roll back progress, beginning with heath care reform, and urged Democrats to "fight back."

Heated debate is also expected on federal efforts to stimulate the U.S. economy, and whether to raise America’s debt ceiling to finance expanding federal borrowing to cover the nation’s trillion-dollar deficit.

Eighty-seven new Republican House members took their seats Wednesday.  Many of them are Tea Party activists, supporters of low taxes and a very limited role for government. They say they want to change the way things are done in Washington.

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