A bipartisan group of senators have reached an agreement on a plan to revamp the Electoral Count Act to clarify the vice president’s role in certifying presidential election results.
Two unnamed Senate sources told CNN said the overhaul will make it clear that the vice president has only a ceremonial role in overseeing the electoral certification.
The group of lawmakers said they were working to finalize the legislation and introduce it as early as next week, NBC News reported.
“We’re very close. We’ve got a few technical issues that we need to iron out, and I’m very hopeful that we’ll have a bill early next week — or bills,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told reporters Wednesday.
“That’s one of the issues that we’re deciding: whether it’s better to introduce more than one bill or one bill.”
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said the group was “hopeful” about the success of the legislation.
Plans to clarify the Electoral Count Act come about a month after the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol heard testimony about former President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to reject the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Former advisers and lawyers to Pence said Trump counsel John Eastman tried to present a legal theory to justify having Pence overturn the election during the certification process.
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Another way of trying to amend the Constitution by unlawful, but convenience political means. Only the Supreme Court can clarify if the role of the Vice President is just ceremonial, and there is a long process to amending the Constitution, not just a party vote. Why do Republicans keep splitting hairs in bi-partisan parting of the Constitution to render it useless and shredded? Bipartisan these days is as productive in creating living American lifeforce as Bi-Sexual. Quit joining the Democrat party of criminals in more end runs around the Constitution and only amend it lawfully, or risk a whole slew of more January 6ths which is what the demonstrations were all about in the first place.
Through voter fraud, we got Joe Biden and his criminal crime family intent on destroying America and destroying the Constitution.
Exactly who was ON THIS bloody committee?? BIPARTISAN my rear end.
More like the hind end of the Democrat party who idea of BiPartisan is as useful and productive as their ideas on BiSexual.Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
bipartisian means democRATS got what they wanted.
These days it certainly SEEMS that way.