"Speaker Pelosi famously promised the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history," Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican leader, said Thursday.
"These battlefields are living classrooms to remind future generations of our national history," Representative Gary G. Miller, a California Republican who was a sponsor of the bill, said.
Incensed by this rewriting of history, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., Democrat of Illinois, arose just before the reading to remind the House of what it was redacting.
"It's disappointing that Speaker Pelosi and Democratic leaders let this situation go on this long — especially after promising to preside over the most honest, open, and ethical Congress in history," Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican leader, said in a statement.
While calling the scandal "the worst moment" in Secret Service history, Representative Peter T. King, the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said Tuesday that the agency had moved "very quickly and aggressively," and would continue the inquiry to make sure that national security was not compromised.
Four times in Grand Slam history, representatives of a single nation have filled the semifinals, most recently at the Australian Open in 1995, when an all-American crew of Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Michael Chang and Aaron Krickstein reached the final four.
In the course of events in Islamic history, representatives of certain theological movements, who happened to be jurists and who succeeded in converting rulers to their cause, made those rulers declare in favour of their movements and even encouraged them to persecute their opponents.
"Leave the [bridge] as it is and let old history live with new history," said representative Doug Paling.
