March 28, 2024

Empty speaker’s office aggravates House-Senate beef

One of the frontrunners for House speaker, Jim Jordan of Ohio (center), didn’t even support the stopgap spending bill that avoided a shutdown. | Francis Chung/POLITICO The chaos-ridden, speaker-less House is threatening to stymie a host of bipartisan legislative efforts across the Capitol — and senators are getting really tired of it. Forget the expectations

Congress’ latest House-Senate wrangle: Preventing the next Jan. 6

Their proposal reforms the 19th-century law, which sets out deadlines for states to certify their own presidential contests and a process to deliver electors to Washington. The Electoral Count Act then sets out a process for the vice president — acting as president of the Senate — to preside over the count, and outlines a

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