Lawmakers are voting Wednesday on a proposal to modernize the 135-year-old law that Trump backers tried to use to their advantage on Jan. 6
Asked Tuesday about Republican support for the bill, Cheney told reporters: “Protecting future elections is something that we ought to all be able to agree upon, regardless of party.”
Both the Senate and House bills raise the threshold for lawmakers to object to electoral results, clarify the vice president’s ministerial role during the counting of electoral votes and lay out an expedited court process for election challenges,House Democrats are prepared to hammer their Republican colleagues in the election over their opposition to the bill — one of the few legislative proposals related to Jan. 6 likely to become law in some form.
Members of the high-profile select panel — tasked with investigating the attack and the former president’s efforts to undermine the 2020 election — directly linked their months-long probe to the legislation, which is spearheaded by two of its members, Reps.“I think this is one of the most significant of the committee’s reform recommendations,” said Rep., a member of the select panel. “And it’s also one where, in theory, we should be able to get it passed in both [chambers].
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