The legislative fallout from GOP Reps. Pete Sessions’ and Mike Fitzpatrick’s decision to skip the House swearing-in ceremony Wednesday has been neatly cleaned up by the pair’s Republican colleagues in the House majority. But that doesn’t bring an end to the story, which now shifts to whether Fitzpatrick and/or Sessions broke the law by holding a prohibited political fundraiser at the Capitol rather than going to the ceremony with the rest of their colleagues.
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