in pennsylvania. in fact, i think inadequate response to those concerns by pennsylvania officials is one of the major problems. simple measures like audits should be routine and random and i believe they are critical tore restoring faith in elections in pennsylvania moving forward. the bottom line is that pennsylvania officials at all levels failed to conduct a uniform and legal election and for that reason they inappropriately and unlawfully certified the state electors. i yield the balance of my time to mr. keller. >> the violence that occurred in the capitol today was shameful, unacceptable and un-american we are a nation of laws and never give into the mob. thank you to the men and women of our capitol police and other law enforcement agencies who defended this building. the criminal behavior we witnessed today does not erase the facts. i'm objecting to the certification of pennsylvania's electoral votes because the governor and secretary of state and pennsylvania supreme court violated the state

college votes in pennsylvania. the senators and members of congress who said they'll object to today. let's listen. >> citizens retain that power. sadly here in pennsylvania yesterday and evidently today, later today in washington, some of our public servants have seemed to have forgotten that. as a result, government of the people, by the people, and for the people is really taking a hit. m proud to turn this over to secretary kathy bothar. secretary? > thank you. good afternoon. happy new year. thank you very much, governor, thank you commissioner smith, for being here. in november's election, 100 years and one day after american women voted for the very first time, we are extremely proud of the record voter participation in the commonwealth. pennsylvania held a fair, free, secure and accessible election. for eligible pennsylvanians. with exceptional transparency throughout the entire process. once again, i want to give tremendous thanks to all the election officials and poll workers, republicans an democrats, wh

to the pennsylvania and electoral count while the u.s. senate has rejected the objection and understand that u.s. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who we saw just a few minutes ago he says he doesn't expect any more votes and says they challenging the election results so once the votes in this strain but is carried out it will then go to the as heidi was just explaining it will then go to the joint session of congress and they will do a collective vote and then it will be rejected and then the joe biden will become little will be nominated as the next president of the united states ahead of his inauguration on january the 20th and when i get a flavor of what's going on on the floor i said that's what the texas lawsuit was all about we disadvantage other states in states like pennsylvania the executive branch and just your branch sheet on the constitution and that's what they did here but there's more evidence but wait there's more the democrats secretary of the commonwealth eroded integrity by dismissing signature authentication on

pennsylvania secretary of state and by the pennsylvania supreme court. these unlawful actions include but are not limited to accepting ballots at 8:00 p.m. on election day, and consistent applications of verified signature requirements for in person ballots versus mail-in ballots, authorizing the curing of mail-in ballots with less than 24 hours notice, to inconsistent preparedness between counties and authorizing use of unsecured drop boxes, which is not permitted in statute. such unlawful actions are to be accepted, why do we -- what do we have to look forward to next year? the pennsylvania secretary of state allowing online voting because it may be raining in philadelphia? it was a free-for-all. madam speaker, it was back in 2005 when then-minority leader pelosi by leading 31 democrats as they objected to the presidential election certification as they did in the last three presidential elections, when a republican won, and stated quite well actually that the members of congress have brought this challenge and are speaking up for their aggrieved const

before i recognize the gentleman from pennsylvania. the house will be in order jack chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania mr perry for 5 minutes . thank you madam speaker this is a somber day for the defense of the constitution see the constitution is just a piece of paper it cannot defend itself that is why our leaders swear an oath poll and defend the constitution and that's what i'm doing here this evening the constitution states the times place and manner of holding elections shall be prescribed by the legislature not the courts not the governor not the secretary of state or other bureaucrats or elected officials the legislature in pennsylvania the supreme court unilaterally extended the deadline for ballots to 3 days after the election actually wanted 10 the supreme court is not the legislature the supreme court mandated and postmark ballots to be received destroying the validity of all of the votes that were cast timely the supreme court action defied the law the legislature and the will of the people the supreme court

sadly but resolutely i reject the votes of pennsylvania on the grounds of pennsylvania on the grounds of multiple constitutional infractions that they were not under all of the known circumstances regularly given and on this occasion i have a written objection signed by a senator and 80 members of the house of representatives. is the objection in writing and signed by a senator? yes, mr president, it is. an objection presented in writing and signed by both a representative and a complies with the law. chapter one title three of the us code. the clerk will report the objection. we, a united states senator and members of the house of representatives, subject to the counting of the electoral votes of the state of pennsylvania on the ground that they were not under all of the known circumstances regularly given. signed, josh harlow, us senator, scott curry, member of congress. are there further objections to the certificates from the commonwealth of pennsylvania? the chair he has none. the two houses will withdraw from joint session. details will deliberate separately and deliver its deci

in 2020, he lost pennsylvania by a little over 1%. is there anything at all that is implausible or surprising about a 2% change in the election outcome? relative to 2016, in pennsylvania the president lost a little ground in most of the rural counties he had carried, lost a lot of ground in the big suburban counties and slightly narrowed his loss in foothills. there is no surprises here. this reflects a pattern that occurred all across the country. my colleagues, as i said, it is not our responsibility to sit in judgment of state election procedures in the first place. but if it were, there would not be nearly sufficient reason to deny my constituents their right to participate in this presidential election. mr. president, joe biden won the election. that's not what i hoped for, but that's what happened. it was an honest victory. with the usual minor irregularities that occur in most elections. we witnessed today the damage that can result when men in power and responsibility refuse to acknowledge the truth. we saw bloodshed because a

pennsylvania should be the last one. this probably could go on another, oh, 30-40 minutes, not to mention the actual roll call vote on this, and then coming back into the joint session to finally, finally, finally, later on, sometime in the wee hours, wrap this up and certify joe biden is the winner. >> gillian: all right, chad pergram, thanks for staying with us. we will come back to you shortly. >> thank you. >> gillian: jon? >> jon: after the chaos on wednesday, congress is still in the process of certifying the electoral college results. joining us now, pennsylvania congresswoman chrissy houlahan, who was inside the capitol when those protesters stormed in. give us your account, i mean, what did you see, where did you go? >> sure, of course, and thanks for me tonight. for me, personally, i am a member of the delegation from pennsylvania, so i had spent much of the morning and evening before with the pennsylvania delegation talking about what would unfold here in the capitol this evening. so, for me, i was walking to

and 92-7 to accept pennsylvania's electors. later congress

and pennsylvania republicans objected to the vote leading you to more debate as we saw as the evening and early morning we have movement in the last few minutes as far as the pennsylvania objections are concerned what's happened. that's right the house is just wrapping up its vote on that objection to pennsylvania it was waged by 80 house republicans joined by one republican senator and the voting is still open but at this point it's showing that some 137 where public and members of the house have voted in favor of the objection well that if is still not enough to have the measure passed as this is the chamber controlled by democrats who have all unanimously voted it appears that far this far to. go with this objection so what is that all mean here is that once this vote is formalized that both chambers will once again unite for and nother joint session of congress and from there the remaining states will be read out in alphabetical order where in pennsylvania right now and if there are no more objections and we expect there not to be then all in very short order this process may reac

let me go through a few facts about pennsylvania. first, some of the objectors and in fact even the president of the united states this morning have observed that the pennsylvania supreme court disregarded existing law when it ruled that mail-in ballots could be counted even if they arrived up to three days after the election day. now, the objectors are right about that. in my view the supreme court of the united states should overturn that illegal decision. but, mr. president, only 10,097 ballots arrived in pennsylvania during the three days after the election and those 10,097 ballots have been excluded from the vote count that resulted in president-elect biden winning pennsylvania by about 80,000 votes. what greater remedy could the objectors possibly want than the complete exclusion of the late late-arriving ballots? how could we possibly invalidate the entire pennsylvania electi election, over 10,000 votes that were not even included in the vote count? a second charge we heard and the senator from missouri alluded to it this even

obviously, you saw the pennsylvania delegation, pennsylvania republicans, were all signed onto the objection here. they all plan to speak. probably, a pretty good bet the pennsylvania democrats, as well as maybe a couple other democrats who have strategized the defense in terms how pennsylvania operated, how its state laws operated, and what it did in the wake of the pandemic to allow for more mail-in voting. one thing to keep in mind, anderson, we spoke about this before they reconvened. both sides, both chambers, both sets of leaders, won't this to move quickly. and so, while the senate is going to move very quickly, probably right into a rollcall vote. the house will take more time, but they are also trying to wrap this up. and i think that the final point i'd make here, in terms of process and what's going to happen next. pennsylvania is expected to be the last successful objection that actually launches a process. obviously, you saw two objections fail, in michigan and nevada, because republican senators -- and georgia, sorry, three objections fail because republican senators did not si

and then, when pennsylvania citizens tried to go and be heard on this subject before the pennsylvania supreme court, they were dismissed on grounds of procedure. timeliness. in violation of that supreme court's own precedent. so, the merits of the case have never been heard. the constitutionality of the statute's actually never been defended. i am not aware of any court that's passed on its constitutionality. actually, not aware of anybody who's defended its constitutionality. and this was what -- this was the statute that governed this last election, in which there were over 2.5 million mail-in ballots in pennsylvania. this is my point. that, this is the forum the pennsylvania supreme court hasn't heard the case. there is no other court to go to, to hear the case in the state. and so, this is the appropriate place for these concerns to be raised, which is why i have raised them here, today. and i hope that this body will not miss the opportunity to take affirmative action to address the concerns of so many millions of americans. to say to millions of americans, tonight, that violence

with regard to the pennsylvania think whatyou may was done in pennsylvania was unconstitutional, but no court saw that it standing the receipt of absentee ballots was anything to do with security issues in any way compromise security thats, and no court found it was unconstitutional to extend the time when the board of elections could actually receive a ballot. fortunately, the number of ballots that were received in that period didn't make a difference one way or another. if that had occurred, and if pennsylvania was the key state in the election, then maybe the supreme court might have ruled on the merits of that case, but fortunately, it wasn't. and therefore, some people may tonk that it was improper have done so, and they are entitled to view it in that way, but no court has found that. and certainly no one has the extension of the receipt of ballots as having anything to do with the security of absentee ballots as a general rule, whether they need to be way,d and verified in any they did need to be signed and verified in exactly the same way as every other absentee ballot as it

i am the curator here at washington crossing historical park in pennsylvania. reenactment of george washington's crossing of the delaware river on christmas night, 1776. what happened here is one of the most unexpected and daring military maneuvers of the american revolution. the story is washington and the continental army after having lost battles in new york and retreating across new jersey came into bucks county in the beginning of december 1776. they camped in several locations around the area including the thompson neely house, which is part of our park. things are pretty desperate at this point for washington and the patriot cause. the continental army really needed a win. washington was afraid the british were going to invade philadelphia and take over the capital. he knew what he needed was a and after meeting with his war council they made the decision that on christmas night they would cross the delaware and marched to trenton to attack the hessian outpost at trap -- trenton. as they marched from the thomas aely house here to the ferry, snowstorm sta

and then when a pennsylvania citizen tried to go and be heard on this subject before the pennsylvania supreme court, they were dismissed on grounds of procedure, timeliness, and violation of that supreme court's own precedent. so the merits of the case have never been heard, the constitutionality of the statute has never been defended. i am not aware of any court that has passed on its constitutionality. i actually am not aware of anybody that has defended the constitutionality. this is the statute that governed this last election in which there were over 2.5 million mail-in ballots in pennsylvania. this is my point, that this is the forum. the pennsylvania supreme court hasn't heard the case. there is no other court to go to to hear the case in the state. and so this is the appropriate place for these concerns to be raised, which is why i had raised them here today. and i hope that this body will not miss the opportunity to take affirmative action to address the concerns of so many millions of americans. to say to millions of americans tonight that violence is never warranted, that v

the gentlewoman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cole: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, if we defeat the previous question, i'll offer an amendment to the rule to immediately bring up a resolution establishing a bipartisan national commission on the domestic terrorist attack on the united states capitol. this commission, modeled on the 9/11 commission, will be charged with examining and reporting upon the facts and causes relating to the attack that occurred on january 6 of 2020 -- 2021. and with providing appropriate findings, conclusions and recommendations for corrective measures. i can think of no more appropriate path for congress, mr. speaker, to follow than by ensuring a bipartisan commission reviews all evidence and reports back to us on this horrific event. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my amendment in t

is there anything to blame for the slow rollout in pennsylvania? >> the rollout in pennsylvania is one the governor took for certain steps, like for gyms and restaurants, and as you said, they expire tomorrow, and already the daily caseload has dropped off significantly. those are set to expire on the 4th, and the governor has indicated he's not going to renew them. but the fact of the matter is, we had to get those caseloads down, and finding the right balance, striking it between lives and livelihood, is something we've always strived to do here in pennsylvania, recognizing the fact there has to be that appropriate balance. with respect to the vaccine rollout and other things, it's difficult when you don't have a national strategy and a national leader in place. quite frankly, we're still arguing about masks when whether you should have events indoors or whether the virus is something you should even be afraid of, as some people say, here in our state. so ilt's not surprising. but when joe biden is inaugurated on the 20th, we're going to see real

missouri, to the electors of pennsylvania. that's enough to trigger another two hours of debate, up to two hours, i should say, and another vote. time is a flat circle up here on capitol hill, so it's possible they won't take the entire two hours to debate. but the voting process in the house, at least, is long and cumbersome in the era of coronavirus and so we're going to enter the very dark of night here for another debate on the merits of the election system in the state of pennsylvania. >> i could not have asked for a more complete report, whether backed up by a u.s. senator or not. to folks watches, what you are seeing, members of the senator exit through the main corridor of the house chamber. house chamber is significantly larger, the larger of the two. this process, just like a state of the union address, any joint session, means the 10 0 members of the u.s. senate, those who

and then when a pennsylvania citizen tried to go and be heard on this subject before the pennsylvania supreme court, they were dismissed on grounds of procedure, timeliness, and violation of that supreme court's own precedent. so the merits of the case have never been heard, the constitutionality of the statute has never been defended. i am not aware of any court that has passed on its constitutionality. i actually am not aware of anybody that has defended the constitutionality. this is the statute that governed this last election in which there were over 2.5 million mail-in ballots in pennsylvania. this is my point, that this is the forum. the pennsylvania supreme court hasn't heard the case. there is no other court to go to to hear the case in the state. and so this is the appropriate place for these concerns to be raised, which is why i had raised them here today. and i hope that this body will not miss the opportunity to take affirmative action to address the concerns of so many millions of americans. to say to millions of americans tonight that violence is never warranted, that v

they've only challenged arizona and pennsylvania. at the end of this they will announce the total and announced that joe is the next president of the us. ike -underscore how tense this has been with the protesters and demonstrators merging in the building. they ran into the senate chambers running through the office of anti- policy. a lot of people thought members may come back and try to lower the temperature. they were some republicans who thought the main and giving contest both. people were amongst several republicans challenging the both earlier and switch to their position later on. they said we now need the entire congress to come together and certify the election. we must stand together. there is a lot of hope but not a lot of chance for unity. we turn now to the streets of washington were fox news correspondent kevin is standing by. we arrived here around 2:00 p.m. this afternoon. we were joined by thousands of demonstrators here. he offered remarks today talking about his frustrations as related to the 2020 elections. while

then when pennsylvania citizens tried to go and be heard on this subject before the pennsylvania supreme court, they were dismissed on grounds of procedure, timeliness in violation of that supreme court's own precedent. so the merits of the case have never been heard. the constitutionality of the statute has never been defended. i'm not aware of anybody that has defended the constitutionality and this was the statute that governed this last election in which there are over 2.5 million mail-in ballots in pennsylvania. this is my point, that this is the forum, the pennsylvania supreme court hasn't heard the case. there is no other court to go to to hear the case in the state and so this is the appropriate place for those concerns to be raised, which is why i have raised them here today. and i hope that this body will not miss the opportunity to take affirmative action to address the concerns of so many millions of americans to say to millions of americans tonight that violence is never warranted, that violence will not be tolerated, that those who engaged in it will be prosecuted but this

from pennsylvania. mr casey, senator from pennsylvania. i rise tonight to defend the people of the commonwealth of pennsylvania to defend the more than 6.9 million voters who voted in this election and to condemn in the strongest possible terms. this attempt to disenfranchise the voters of pennsylvania. feast upon a lie, a falsehood that same why so the seeds of today's violence and today's lawlessness here in the capital. one of my constituents. susan from the lehigh valley. the community of our state where senator toomey lives recently wrote to my office and perhaps said it best, she said, and i quote we cannot allow anybody. overturn the legal votes of the citizens of pennsylvania. this would be the ultimate destruction of our democracy. unquote susan had it right. we cannot allow anybody and she put that word in all caps to overturn the legal votes of the people of our state. let me address the allegation regarding the pennsylvania constitution and the general assembly. somehow that the. general assembly didn't have the authority to en

we are expecting a challenge later tonight to pennsylvania. josh hawley, the republican senator from missouri, who said he would contest this. you need both a house petitioner and a senate petitioner in order to trigger this separate debate in the house and senate over an individual slate of electoral votes from states. keep in mind that this is only the third time that this has ever happened in u.s. history. what happened in 1969 with one elect or from north carolina. what happened in 2005 with ohio's electoral slates, and again today. we are expecting this to go late into the night here. house speaker nancy pelosi took the house for when they came back into session. she said that today was a "shameful assault on our democracy." she said it cannot, however, deter us from our responsibilities, and always knew this responsibility would take us into the night, and we will stay as long as it takes. we must show the world that we will not be diverted from our duty. know something significant here, you talk about senators perhaps changing their tun

the commonwealth of pennsylvania violated their own constitution they violated the u.s. constitution they open the door for thousands unverifiable ballots because they failed to guarantee the integrity of their votes i cannot consent to accepting pennsylvania's electoral votes. and there you have the house of representatives and nancy pelosi allowing those to speak with regards to the objections to the pencil veiny vote let's bring in heidi castro has been following the early morning of events really it's been going through the night heidi let's just bring our viewers up to speed with a quote coming from twitter apparently the president's account was suspended for a while and violating tweets have been removed. that's right a 12 hour suspension which is really a dramatic move from twitter as as we all know trump uses twitter as his number one form of communications especially in times when when he feels particularly isolated and there can be no greater time than now this is a president who normally would even be watching these proceedings unfold in congress and then twee

they will accept the pennsylvania slate. the senate voted earlier, the vote was 92-7 to accept pennsylvania. we will have a brief pause and was will happen is they will reconvene a joint session of congress. this is just the house you are looking at and mike pence, the vice president will come over to the dais inside the house chamber and continue going through the slate of electoral college votes. they will get through south carolina, rhode island and south dakota. to the end of the alphabet there was a question whether they would challenge wisconsin's electoral votes. at the end, mike pence under the limit of the amendment will announce the photo, 306 electoral votes for joe biden and 232 for donald trump and all will be on a glide path for president-elect biden to be sworn in at the capital on the twentieth of january. this has been a very intense day after the ride in the capital. several lawmakers on the republican side said they want to challenge the electoral slates. the republican senator from indiana. he said i didn

look at pennsylvania. look at pennsylvania. pennsylvania lost its mail-in ballots by 8:00 on election day. election day ends at 8:00. mail-in ballots have to be in by 8:00 election day. democratic state supreme court say we will extend it to friday. friday. pennsylvania state law says mail-in ballots require signature verification. the democrat secretary of state said no. for 2.6 million ballots, she said we are not going to follow law. pennsylvania law says mail-in ballots cannot be processed until election day, but some county commissioners says no and allowed ballots to be cured, to be fixed, to be changed before election day. you can imagine which counties allowed that. you can just imagine. democrat counties allowed it. republican can't do not. the legislature determines the time, place and manner of elections, not the supreme court, not the secretary of state, not county commissioners. all of those took actions that violated the law. the law that state legislatures enacted, and thereby, violated the constitution. but demo

the senate, by the way, has finished that debate on pennsylvania. they were allowed up to two hours. they didn't take it at all. they went to a straight up and down vote, voting 97 in favor of counting the legally placed electors of pennsylvania against two against the objection. 97-2. that thing is over in the congress, or at least in the senate. now they're waiting for the house to finish so they can continue counting the electors. until the house finishes, and that could be two hours, it doesn't go back to the senate where that vote is completed and where mike pence will sign off on it. that is the only job congress has here. there is no role for debate. there is no role for objections. there is only a role to count the votes. let's go right to capitol hill where nbc's garrett haake is standing by. garrett, tell us what has happened now, because that last objection to pennsylvania went to the senate where they were permitted two hours of voting. it is already over. it didn't last 25 minutes as far as i could count. they voted up or down. the sena

i have that right gentleman from pennsylvania 15 from. ok 32nd from gentlewoman's organize for additional 30 seconds we have that right because of the f.b.i. has indicated that they have seen 100000 digital media and they'll be looking for more to see those who endangered all of those that were here my appreciation to police and the floor staff and law enforcement custodial staff staff media and others who were put in harm's way along with members so i rise to support this resolution because it does not violate the constitution or the intent of the 25th amendment it provides for the congress to speak to ask the vice president to recognize that this gentleman in iran that it's ever still gentlemen i consider reserves gentleman from oklahoma is recognized thank you misspeak or misspeak or are you 3 minutes to my very good friend and fellow member of the rules to very distinguished panel lady from arizona ms lesko the gentleman from arizona is recognized for 3 minutes thank you mr speaker i rise in opposition to the rule over the last week w

pennsylvania republicans objected ready to the vote leading to more debates before the vice president could announce as we expect to have won the presidential election so where are we now in terms of the timeline of the debates. why well this could have been an even longer night so hail have republicans followed through with their original plan which was to object to more than just these 2 states but then due in part to the violence that ensued there were several republican senators who pulled back those objections and without their partnership with the house republicans i wanted to still carry forth those objections the only states that remain on the table were arizona and pennsylvania for arizona earlier in the evening that was resoundingly defeated the objections there those votes certified as going to joe biden for president and now we're seeing the last minutes likely of the debate in the house for pennsylvania and we're seeing really a rehashing from these republican representatives who are objecting calling about what they believe are the election in securities notable notably

gave his thoughts about the vote in pennsylvania t they're s portion of the debate. my reading is that it is eunlikely that w will have further objections after this one,eminder to evryone about what will happen here, i've been asking how much time is left on the cloc for both the house and senate for the debate. i ink the senate should be getting pretty close to running out of debate tim after that they go to a vote on this objection. whether to sustain the objection or not. now, that could take some time because we're doing covid an precaution frankly, any vote in the senate takes time h going throe u.s. senate. they do a roll call i'ldil pre 20 to to 30 minutes, then the house will take longer they wili be v in covid formation, that could take an hour. i think what i'm getting at here i'm starting to see hopes for a horizon for when this very long day ends. of course, we still need to m confat there will be no further objections. but my reding is tat is the mood of the chambers. that is what i'm getting from the remarks, these are not sharp protests of the electio

but we also can thank you for pennsylvania state representative malcolm kenyatta who's going to join us later in the hour. we all met him to say about the challenge that apparently the pennsylvania electors are going to face in the house of representatives and the united states senate on january 6th when that circus begins. >> yeah, these next few days are just going to be nutty. i mean, we knew that it was going to be amazing to have twin senate elections the first week in january following an election where the incumbent president was turfed out and those twin senate elections would determine control of the u.s. senate and whether or not the incoming democratic president would have a senate and the house behind him or just the house. we knew that was going to be nuts.

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and 92-7 to accept pennsylvania's electors. later congress certified joe biden as the winner of the presidential election. >> the senate will come to order. the vice-president as president of the senate would like to give a brief statement with the indulgence of the senators. >> today was a dark day in the history of the united states capitol. but thanks to the swift efforts of u.s. capitol police, federal, state, and local law enforcement, the violence was quelled. the capitol is secured and the people's work continues. we condemn the violence that took place here in the strongest possible terms. we grieve the loss of life in these hallowed halls, as well as the injuries suffered by those who defended our capitol today. and we will always be grateful to the men and women who stayed at their posts to defend this historic place. to those who wreaked havoc in our capitol today, you did not win. violence never wins. freedom wins. and this is still the people's house. as we reconvene in this chamber, the world will again witness th

i yield the floor. >> democratic leader. >> senator from pennsylvania. >> senator from pennsylvania. >> we just say -- my apologies to senator casey here. but that was senator josh hawley of missouri, who was the first republican senator to say that he would object to the counting of the electoral votes to certify the victory of former vice president and now president-elect joe biden. there had been -- there's been a lot of discussion today as to whether the republican party who demand the resignation of senator hawley given his role in effectively inciting what happened today in the u.s. capitol when a violent mob stormed the u.s. capitol building. i think there was widespread expectation that senator hawley would at least withdraw his objection and say that the electoral votes should now be counted. but we heard him continue to foment the conspiracy theories and to nurse the grievances that led to the events that we saw today, and he's apparently sticking with that course. now, i just want to tell you what we're watching here is we're seeing proceedings in the senate and proceeding

and then in pennsylvania, 20. we've also learned from reporting on capitol hill that senator ted cruz, republican of texas, plans to object to arizona's electoral college votes. senator josh hua lee, republican of missouri, intending to object to pennsylvania. then kelly loeffler, republican of georgia, she plans to make her way back to washington if she's not already here to object to georgia. now she just lost her special election race to waff yale warnock in the special election yesterday. on your screen you can see more lawmakers making their way into the house chamber. joint session is supposed to get under way around 1:00 p.m. close to 1:00 p.m. when that happens of course we will bring you gavel-to-gavel coverage of that has there been any other dramatic electoral college moments in the past, laura brown? guest: well, we certainly have seen objections in the past. i mentioned those objections that have only come from one chamber. but we have also had a recent xample of an objection after the 2004 election.

so, pennsylvania was defrauded. over a thousand ballots in pennsylvania were cast by people whose names and dates of birth match individuals who died in 2020 and prior. to the election. think of that. dead people. lots of dead people. thousands. some dead people actually requested an application. that bothers me more. not only are they voting, they want an application. one of them was 29 years ago, died. it's incredible. over 14,000 ballots were cast by out-of-state voters. so these are the voters that don't live in the state. by the way, these numbers are what they call outcome determinative, meaning these numbers far surpassed -- these numbers are massive. massive. more than 10,000 votes in pennsylvania were illegally counted. even though they were received after election day. in other words, they were received after election day. let's count them anyway. and what they did in many cases is they did fraud. they took the day it and moved it back so that it no longer is after election day. and more than 60,000 ballot

pennsylvania state law says election day ends at 8:00 on election day. the supreme court of pennsylvania says nope we're extending it three days until 5:00 on friday. state law in pennsylvania says for every absentee mail-in ballot there has to be a signature verification and the secretary of state says nope we're not going to do that. she unilaterally went around the law for 2.6 million mail-in ballots the state law of pennsylvania is clear that says that mail-in ballots cannot be processed until election day, but some counties in pennsylvania allow ballots to be fixed, cured, before election day. so maria, take a guess which counties allowed that. democrat counties, with democrat county commissioners and clerks allowed that to happen. republican counties didn't. the republican counties in pennsylvania followed the law, so when the time, place and manner is not adhered to and that the legislature is set that is a direct violation of the constitution, and that disenfranchises the votes in the district. i get the privilege of representing in the 4th distr

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speaker, i thank the gentlelady from pennsylvania, my friend, ms. scanlon, for yielding me the customary 30 minutes and i yield myself such time as i may consume. thank you, mr. speaker. just a few days ago, the nation was shaken by the violent and destructive actions of an outrageous mob that stormed the capitol and attempted to gain access to this very chamber. seeking to harm innocent lives and disrupt democracy at work. i vehemently condemn their lawless actions. this never should have happened. and the perpetrators of this -- these despicable crimes that took place in this building must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. while americans have the right to passionately voice their views and peacefully dissent in protest, the siege on our capitol last wednesday was the furthest thing from peaceful protest. as a result of the violent and frightening events of the day, six lives have been lost. this includes two courageous capitol police officers who put themselves in harm's way to protect us, secure the building, and restore order. we

what happened in pennsylvania? between 2016 and this election the governor of the state, secretary of state of the state, two left-wing democrats, the majority on the supreme court elected by that of seven democrats, all of them conspired to change state law that was passed by the state legislator to eliminate signatures, to illuminate signature comparisons, to eliminate deadlines on county mail in both, to illuminate postal marks, to prevent republican observers and democrats cities and it goes on and on. they destroyed the election laws in pennsylvania to accommodate joe biden and the democrat party particularly in the metropolitan areas and that is what happened in pennsylvania and i don't have to find one damn fraudulent ballot to make the point that what was done in pennsylvania by the biden campaign, by the dnc, by the states democrats and by their officials violated the federal constitution. whether there is fraudulent votes or not and there are and a lot but they violated the specific language of the federa