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2022-09-28 Home Front: Politix
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Senate Republican leader backs revisions to elections law after Trump-fueled ‘chaos’
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[IsraelTimes] Mitch McConnell says he will ’proudly support’ overhauling rules for certifying votes, after former president and allies attempted to overturn Biden win, sparking Jan. 6 insurrection
US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell
 ...Senate minority leader from Kentucky. A politician's politician, Mitch is smarter than he's given credit for, not as smart as he thinks he is. He is married to former education secretary Elaine Chao, whose father has extensive shipping interests, including a company in China, which makes sense since he's Chinese. He is sometimes maligned as Cocaine Mitch because a few million bucks' worth of the drug was once found on one of his father-in-law's ships in Colombia, which is kind of a tenuous assertion, to say the least...
said Tuesday he will "proudly support" legislation to overhaul rules for certifying presidential elections, bolstering a bipartisan effort to revise a 19th-century law and avoid another January 6 insurrection.
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The legislation would clarify and expand parts of the 1887 Electoral Count Act, which, along with the Constitution, governs how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential winners.
The changes in the certification process are in response to unsuccessful efforts by former US president Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
and his allies to exploit loopholes in the law to overturn his 2020 defeat to Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan....
, and the violent mostly peaceful attack on the Capitol by his supporters as Congress counted the votes.
"Congress’ process for counting the presidential electors’ votes was written 135 years ago," McConnell said. "The chaos that came to a head on Jan. 6 of last year certainly underscored the need for an update."
McConnell made the remarks just before the Senate Rules Committee voted 14-1 to approve the bill and send it to the Senate floor, where a vote is expected after the November election. The only senator to vote against the legislation was Republican Senator Ted Cruz;
...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke , who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet...
of Texas, one the senators to stand and object to Biden’s certification last year.
The GOP leader’s endorsement gave the legislation a major boost as the bipartisan group pushes to pass the bill before the end of the year and ahead of the next election cycle. Trump is still pushing false claims of election fraud and saying he won the election as he considers another run in 2024. McConnell’s support for the law could put him even more at odds with Trump, who frequently berates the GOP leader and has encouraged Republicans to vote against it.
The House has already passed a more expansive bill overhauling the electoral rules, but it has far less Republican support. While the House bill received a handful of GOP votes, the Senate version already has the backing of at least 12 Republicans — more than enough to break a filibuster and pass the legislation in the 50-50 Senate.
As he announced his support, McConnell noted that Democrats also objected to legitimate election results the last three times that Republicans won the presidency.
"The situation obviously called for careful, methodical and bipartisan work," he said, noting that the bipartisan group that negotiated the bill worked on the language for months.
McConnell called the House bill a "non-starter" in the Senate because of the bipartisan compromise on the Senate language. "We have one shot to get this right," he said.
Senator Amy Klobuchar
Senatrix from Minnesota, candidate for the Dem presidential 2020 nomination. You can tell the kind of husband a boy will make by the way he treats his mother. You can tell the kind of leader a politician will make by the way he treats his staff. Klobuchar is reportedly overbearing, snide, and dictatorial with her people. She see this as merely getting the best from them. Her name spelled backward in the Russian alphabet would be "Rachubolk," which sounds pretty daggone suspicious...
, the Democratic chairwoman of the Senate Rules panel, expressed a similar sentiment. The Senate legislation is the bill that "will achieve a strong bipartisan consensus," she said.
Cruz, who stood with Trump as he made false claims of fraud in 2020, called the legislation a "bad bill" and said it would make it harder for Congress to challenge fraudulent elections. He questioned why any Republican would support it.
The bill is all about "Democratic rage" at Trump, Cruz said.
Still, Cruz was the only dissenter. Among the Republicans on the Rules panel who voted for the bill shortly after McConnell’s statement were Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, one of only eight senators to vote against Biden’s certification, and Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty, a strong Trump ally.
Senators made minor tweaks to the legislation at Tuesday’s meeting but kept the bill largely intact. The bill, written by Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin
...Dem senator-for-life from West Virginia. Manchin is one of the approximately one (okay, two) Dem senators who exhibits more integrity than Jello, often even representing his constituents...
of West Virginia, would make clear that the vice president only has a ceremonial role in the certification process, tighten the rules around states sending their votes to Congress and make it harder for politicians to object.
The changes are a direct response to Trump, who publicly pressured several states, members of Congress and then-vice president Mike Pence to aid him as he tried to undo Biden’s win. Even though Trump’s effort failed, politicians in both parties said his attacks on the election showed the need for stronger safeguards in the law.
If it becomes law, the bill would be Congress’ strongest legislative response yet to the January 6, 2021, attack, in which hundreds of Trump’s supporters beat coppers, broke into the Capitol and interrupted the joint session as politicians were counting the votes. Once the rioters were cleared, the House and Senate rejected GOP objections to the vote in two states. But more than 140 Republicans voted to sustain them.
Differences between the House and Senate bills will have to be resolved before final passage, including language around congressional objections.
While the Senate bill would require a fifth of both chambers to agree on an electoral objection to trigger a vote, the House bill would require agreement from at least a third of House members and a third of the Senate. Currently, only one member of each chamber is required for the House and Senate to vote on whether to reject a state’s electors.
The House bill also lays out new grounds for objections, while the Senate does not. 
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