>Veteran US rocker David Crosby has died aged 81, his representative has confirmed. > >The signer-songwriter was a founding member of two of the biggest bands of the 1960s: The Byrds and Crosby, Stills and Nash. > >His career saw him achieve the rare feat of being inducted to the revered Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. > >His wife told showbiz site Variety that he died "after a long illness" while surrounded by family. >...
>"Only Sixteen" is a song by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released in May 1959.
~~ In addition to the Dr Hook cover...
Terry Black released a version of the song in Canada in 1965 where it reached number 14.
The Supremes recorded it on their 1965 album We Remember Sam Cooke.
Jamaican artist Cornell Campbell also recorded a reggae version of the song.
Also:
>Dr. Hook released a version of "Only Sixteen" in the winter of 1975. Their version was the most successful chart release of the song. It reached number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number five on the Cash Box Top 100. Dr. Hook's version spent 22 weeks on the charts and became a Gold record. The song was banned by the BBC[citation needed].
>"More than half a million people who deposited money with collapsed crypto lender Celsius Network have been dealt a major blow to their hopes of recovering their funds," reports the Washington Post, "with the judge in the company's bankruptcy case ruling that the money belongs to Celsius and not to the depositors." >The judge, Martin Glenn, found that Celsius's terms of use — the lengthy contracts that many websites publish but few consumers read — meant "the cryptocurrency assets became Celsius's property." > >The ruling underscores the Wild West nature of the unregulated crypto industry. On Thursday, New York Attorney General Letitia James moved to impose a kind of order, or at least legal repercussions, on Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky, whom she accused in a lawsuit of defrauding hundreds of thousands of consumers.... And while Glenn's ruling won't affect FTX, whose terms of use were different, some analysts saw the ruling as spreading beyond Celsius. > >"There are many other platforms that feature terms of use that are similar to Celsius's," said Aaron Kaplan, a lawyer with the financial-focused firm of Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum and co-founder of his own crypto company. Customers need to "understand the risks that they are taking when depositing their assets onto insufficiently regulated platforms," he said.
Generally The Constitution requires that every Senator and every Representative swear or affirm to uphold the Constitution of the United States. U.S. Const. art. VI clause 3. The form of the oath and the procedure for its administration is regulated by statute. 2 USC § 25. Form of oath, see 5 USC § 3331 and Manual § 197.
Until a Member-elect has subscribed to the oath, he does not enjoy all the rights and prerogatives of a Member of Congress. Deschler Ch 2 § 2.1. Members who have not taken the oath are not entitled to vote (8 Cannon § 3122) or introduce bills (Manual § 300). However, unsworn Members have participated at the beginning of a session in organizational business, such as the election of the Speaker. 1 Hinds § 224. Although a Member has been named to a committee before taking the oath (4 Hinds § 4483) under the modern practice the election of such a Member to a standing committee may be made effective only upon being sworn. See H. Res. 26, H. Res. 27, Jan. 6, 1983.
>The House elects its speaker at the beginning of a new Congress (i.e. biennially, after a general election) or when a speaker dies, resigns or is removed from the position intra-term. At the start of a new Congress, those voting to elect the speaker are representatives-elect, as a speaker must be selected before members are sworn in to office; the House of Representatives cannot organize or take other legislative actions until a speaker is elected.
While they are not sworn into office, they can still vote for a speaker who then swears them in.
It makes about as much sense as the dumpster fire going on now.