McConnell proposed allowing President Obama to raise the debt ceiling at will, while allowing Congress to override it by passing a joint resolution expressing disapproval.
the voting rights acts are a liberal federal takeover of our election systems that right now reside with the states. john thune says there sinterest in reforming the electoral count act of 1887. sources familiar says one item discussed is clarifying the role the vice president and congress play in certifying presidential elections. in other words, making it clear the vice president s role is ceremonial and doesn t have the power to pick and choose electors he or she wants to certify. chuck schumer says that is not enough. that plan, the mcconnell plan, that s what it is, is unacceptable insufficient and even offensive. some score keeping matters little if the game is rigged. with the two parties in their corners, it would seem unlikely congress will send anything on
we must also guard against the false hopes of solutions that don t deal with the problem and try to cover it up or push it away, because people don t want to deal with it. some say the answer lies in doing the bare minimum, like reforming the electoral count act, that my friend, the republican leader, has floated in recent days. let me take this opportunity to make clear that that plan, the mcconnell plan, that s what it is, is unacceptable, unse unacceptably inefficient. scorekeeping matters little if the game is rigged. and as we know too well, state logtds are working day and night to undermine our democratic process from the get-go by empowering partisans to say which ballots count and what do not. what good is it to accurately count a result that s
because the fbi is now trying to identify at least 300 people that they ve seen pictures and videos of, of inside the capitol and 250 of those, they say, are pictures and videos of people who during the riot were actually aggressively attacking law enforcement. so they ve got those pictures and videos posted on the fbi website. they re asking for tips. they re using facial recognition software. they re using cell phone data that allows them to track people in their movements through the capitol. all of those things trying to identify those folks. so that s one thing. the next thing is in terms of what s going on in court. 170 of those 705 people have now pleaded guilty, but we re starting to we re going to see in the coming weeks, the beginning of trials. and so that may shed more light on what the government knows about what led up to the riot, and who may have been in charge of it. because one of the big questions, craig, is did somebody actually have a plan?
we must also guard against the false hopes of solutions that don t deal with the problem. that try to cover it up or push it away because people don t want to deal with it. some say the answer lies in doing the bare minimum like reforming the electoral count act. that my friend the republican leader has floated in recent days. let me take this opportunity to make clear that that plan, the mcconnell plan, that s what it is. is unacceptable, unacceptably insufficient, and even offensive. some score keeping matters little if the game is rigged. and as we know too well, state legislatures are working day and night to undermine our democratic process from the get go by empowering partisans to poke potentially say what ballots count and which do not. what good is it to accurately count a result that s compromised from the start?