They created the vice presidency for two reasons, in case the president died, resigned or was incapacitated, summary can step in. That was not clarified and was indeed, controversial until the 1840s. The second reason, potentially was because of the Electoral College structure. About thew anything Electoral College, you know that one of the rules of the original design was that Electoral College electorate vote for two people. They have to be from two different states. The way it worked was that you votes perwo boats president. They had to come from two different states. The founders did that because they thought that at some level or some point, they would vote for somebody from their own state. That second vote was there to force people to vote for somebody else from another state to try to run in the region and get summary from the national reputation. Then they used those two votes to get a first and second place winner. Otherwise, it was just a placeholder. Carlisle, infessor the
Assess over the last 76 days is this whether President Trump abused the power of his office through a quid pro quo robbery extortion or whatever by withholding a meeting or Security Assistance as a way of pressuring ukrainian president selenski to investigate the president s political rival former v. P. Biden for the president s political benefit in the upcoming election a secondary allegation that has been levied is whether President Trump obstructed congress during the inquiry. Evidence of taim during the inquiry does not support either of those allegations the republican report of evidence lays out the reasons in more detail but i will summarize i will begin with the substantive allegation about an abuse of power. The inquiry has returned no direct evidence of President Trump without a meeting or Security Assistance in order to pressure president alinsky to investigate former v. P. Biden witnesses who testified in the in korea have denied having awareness of criminal activity or eve
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United states in these agreements, iran is now feeling emboldened. As of today we are officially putting iran on notice. Senator Charles Schumer debates the Supreme Court nominee process. And if the nominee cannot gain the 60 votes, cannot garner bipartisan support of some significance, then the answer is not to change the rules. The answer is to change the nominee. Republican nominee Jason Chaffetz and democratic representative steven lynch at the House Oversight Committee Investigating russian hacking. If you want me to start issuing subpoenas on the d triple c im probably not going to do it but go ahead and suggest it. How about some of the fbi gentlemans time has expired. You asked me a question. No, i did not. You asked me if i wanted i did not ask the gentleman is out of order. Will the gentleman yield . Mr. Chairman, i think we need to come down here a little bit. All cspan programs are available at cspan. Org, either on our home page or o. By searching the video library. Next w