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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110106:16:03:00

i would like to ask is the gentleman asking unanimous consent? does the gentleman from virginia yield? the gentleman yields. i thank the gentleman for his kindness. i think every member of this body is approaching the reading of their constitution with the most sacred possible spirit in what is clearly an unpresidented moment in the history of the congress of the united states. and i don t take it very lightly when my colleague or when others before we begin the reading of our sacred document are raising questions about what we will specifically be reading, what specifically will be the r redacted based upon amendments or libraries of congress. i want to be clear. i recognize this is a request that in reading those this is ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110106:17:47:00

All right. it took nearly two hours for lawmakers on capitol hill to read the 4,400 words in the u.s. constitution. it just ended a few moments ago. it s the first in u.s. history that the house read the entire document from start to finish on the house floor. let s take you back. listen to some final moments of that reading. i originally proposed september 25th, 1789, ratified may 7th, 1992. no law bearing the compensation of the service of the senators and representatives shall take in effect until an election of representatives shall intervene. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110106:16:14:00

Read. followed by minority leader and then the list goes on. our congressional correspondent is also watching this. this didn t take place with complete harmony at the very start. there had to be discussion about the derivation of the document that all would be reading. why was that so significant? reporter: it was discussion about exactly what type of i guess what the language that is going be read. as you know there are certain parts of the constitution which as you can imagine would be very unsavory for someone to have to get up and have to read. the three fifths clause that says a slave is equal to three fifths of a white person. of course that was later amended so the version that s going to be read on the house floor today and already being read by democrats and republicans is the version as amended. you will not be hearing about ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110106:17:48:00

[ applause ] all right, the applause ending it, punctuating the reading of the constitution. it took 1 hour and 24 minutes to read the entire document on the house floor. that is also after they discussed the derivation of this document. starting with the house speaker, the newly elected house speaker, who had the opening salvo in the reading of the constitution today. meantime, fewer americans are lining up behind the democratic party banner. sharon travis, part of the best local team in washington. joining us now in washington at the political desk. what exactly is happening now. explain. yeah, this story may about an actual downer to politics today. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110106:16:18:00

Little bit more of this reading. but if not she hall return it. with his objections to that house in which it shall have originated which shall enter the objections at large and proceed to reconsider it. i now yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. green. every bill which shall have passed by the house and the senate if after such consideration two-thirds of the house shall agree to pass the bill it shall be sent together with the objections to the other house by which it shall like ....

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