When Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at the Capitol on Friday to swear-in the new class of Senators, many of the smiling politicians handing her their family Bibles will be the same ones who for months have been telling crowds that she was a threat to the American way of life.
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00:00Please join me in pledging allegiance to our flag.
00:07Pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands,
00:15one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
00:21The chair lays before the Senate the certificates of the election of 32
00:26senators elected for six-year terms beginning on January 3rd, 2025.
00:33All certificates the chair has advised are in the form suggested by the Senate
00:38or contain all the essential requirements of the form suggested by the Senate.
00:44If there be no objection, the reading of the certificates will be waived
00:48and they will be printed in full in the record.
00:51If the senators to be sworn will now present themselves at the desk in groups of four,
00:58as their names are called in alphabetical order, the chair will administer their oaths of office.
01:07Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States
01:12against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the
01:19same, that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of
01:25evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which
01:31you are about to enter, so help you God? I do. I do.
01:36Congratulations, senators.
01:49Congratulations.