The House is poised to vote on a bipartisan $1.3 trillion omnibus as soon as Thursday, less than 24 hours after GOP leaders unveiled the massive spending package needed to avert a government shutdown
By Jordain Carney - 01/06/21 07:45 PM EST
Republican senators are hopeful that they ve convinced their colleagues to drop their plan to challenge additional Electoral College results from Georgia and Pennsylvania.
The Senate will reconvene on Wednesday evening to finish debating a challenge to Arizona’s Electoral College results, which was interrupted when rioters stormed the Capitol and senators were moved to a secure location. There s gonna be probably 30 or 40 more minutes of debate, and one vote, said Sen. Rand Paul
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Paul said they expect that the Senate will vote on the objection to Arizona’s Electoral College votes but didn t expect Republican senators to object to the results from Georgia or Pennsylvania as previously planned.
Thank you to the brave law enforcement officials who have put their lives on the line,” Hawley said in the statement. “The violence must end, those who attacked police and broke the law must be prosecuted, and Congress must get back to work and finish its job.
The statement came after pro-Trump rioters breached the Capitol and clashed with police, interrupting Congress’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden
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Hawley was criticized as having played a role in inciting the mobs, particularly after a photo surfaced of him gesturing to a crowd of demonstrators in solidarity earlier in the day.