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Jan 6, 2021 · Under the Constitution, the final step in the 2020 presidential election is for a joint session of Congress to meet on Jan. 6 to count the votes and officially declare a winner.
Jun 24, 2022 · The House sent President Joe Biden the most wide-ranging gun violence bill Congress has passed in decades on Friday, a measured compromise that at once illustrates progress on the long-intractable ...
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Nov 7, 2020 · Both candidates have now surpassed the previous record of 69.5 million for Barack Obama in 2008. In total, more than 145 million votes have been cast in the 2020 presidential election, the most ever and climbing. California — where almost 13 million votes have been counted — has reported just 66% of its total so far.
Jan 6, 2021 · Here's a breakdown of what will take place today: Electoral votes are counted in Congress. Members of the House and the Senate will meet in the House chamber. The President of the Senate — that ...
Nov 5, 2020 · You can follow the latest resultsin the House hereand Senate here. 2:11 a.m. ET, November 5, 2020. This is where the balance of power stands right now in Congress. As results for congressional ...
- 11:30 P.M.: Congress Convenes For Joint Session to Confirm Election Results
- 9:15 P.M.: Kelly Loeffler Will Not Challenge Georgia Certification
- 8:10 P.M. The Senate Reconvenes
- 7:54 P.M. Some Republican Objectors Consider Changing Course
- 7:00 P.M. Twitter Removes Trump’s Tweets
- 6:30 P.M. Congress Will Continue Counting Electoral College Votes Tonight
- 6:21 P.M. Woman Dies After Being Shot at The Capitol
- 5:30 P.M. The Capitol Is Secured
- 4:55 P.M. Foreign Powers Call on Trump to Restore Peace
- 4:17 P.M. Trump Tweets A Conflicting Video Message
The House and Senate convened for a joint session to resume the process of certifying the results of the 2020 election after a mob of violent insurrectionists stormed the Capitol. Earlier, the Senate and House of Representatives met separately to finish debating the objections filed to Arizona’s slate of electors. Both chambers voted to reject the ...
Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler announced Wednesday night that she was dropping her challenge to the certification of Georgia’s electoral college votes for Joe Biden following the violence on Capitol Hill. Loeffler, who lost her reelection campaign to Rev. Raphael Warnockearly Wednesday, joined Republican colleagues including Indiana Sen. Mike Braun an...
Senators returned to the chamber Wednesday to finish debating written objections to Arizona’s electoral slate. Pence, presiding solemnly, rebuked those who tried to violently undermine the Democratic process. “To those who wreaked havoc, you did not win,” he said. He received a thunderous round of applause. He did not mention Trump’s name.
As the full implications of the violent day came into focus, some Republican Senators indicated they would switch their positions and certify all electoral votes for Biden. “We must restore confidence in our electoral process,” said Montana Sen. Steve Daines. “Today changed things drastically,” said Indiana Sen. Mike Braun, who had posted a photogr...
In an unprecedented move, Twitter on Wednesday afternoon removed three of Trump’s tweets and locked his account for 12 hours. In the tweets, he repeated false claims of voter fraud. They had been sent while his supporters were still rioting in the U.S. Capitol and the streets of D.C., and were seen as justifying the violence rather than condemning ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a letter to her colleagues that the joint session of Congress would continue tonight once it is safe, and that members should remain at the Capitol for the time being. Pelosi said she and her top deputies, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, reached the decision after calling the...
A woman who was shot at the Capitol earlier on Wednesday has died, a spokesperson for Washington D.C’s Metropolitan Police Department has confirmed. This is the only known fatality at the time. No other information was immediately provided.
Lawmakers told reporters they were eager to complete the proceedings certifying states’ Electoral College slates as soon as it’s safe. “This is our responsibility to fulfill this day and so we’re gonna try to do everything we can to do our jobs here as soon as it’s safe,” Rep. Pete Aguilar told one reporter. Sen. Joe Manchin said he would not be de...
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a longtime Trump ally, denounced the “disgraceful scenes in U.S. Congress,” using Trump’s chosen medium of Twitter to call for “a peaceful and orderly transfer of power.” Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas also calledon Trump and his supporters to “finally accept the decision of American voters and stop tr...
The President calls on protesters at the Capitol to go home, but simultaneously reiterates his baseless claimthat the election was fraudulent, stoking the rioters’ grievances. “I know your pain. I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us,” Trump said. “But you have to go home now,” he continued. “We have to have peace. We have t...
