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The US House of Representatives and Senate will meet today, Monday, in a joint session of Congress chaired by US Vice President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, to ratify the results of the 2024 presidential elections, which she lost to Donald Trump.
As the event of the ratification of the presidential elections of 2018 continues, Every four years, congressional security officials began erecting a 10-foot fence around the outer perimeter of the Capitol complex over the past few days, given the events in the 2020 election certification session that Trump lost to Biden.
Some of the walls extend beyond “Capitol Square” The usual one that housed the Capitol building itself.
One of these walls ran around the outer limits of Russell Senate Park.
One of the great ironies of the American political system is that the person who lost the presidential race often The session to certify the result will be chaired by, in this case, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Harris remains Vice President until January 20, which also means that she continues to serve as Speaker of the Council. Senators.
Other Americans had undertaken the arduous task of proving their defeat. President Richard Nixon was vice president when he lost to President John F. Kennedy in 1960, and Nixon approved Kennedy wins in January 1961.
Former Vice President Al Gore then concedes his election to President George W. Bush after the disputed election in 2000 and unrest over which candidate won Indeed, in Florida.
Gore was at the time in the Congress building to confirm Bush’s victory in January 2001, and this is what the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution says regarding Congress’ ratification of the election results: “The President of the Senate, in the presence of the members of both Houses Senators and Representatives, all certificates are opened and the votes are then counted.
This requires a joint session of Congress, in which the House and Senate meet together at the same time, usually in the Senate chamber. Representatives.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives presides over the session alongside the President of the Senate: in this case, Vice President Harris, but Harris is the one who runs the session, and the House of Representatives and the Senate do not meet except in a joint session of Congress to receive the President to deliver State of the Union Address and Certification of the Election Result.
Since the House of Representatives successfully elected its Speaker on Friday afternoon, the House and Senate can convene in joint session.
He will preside House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, sitting at the podium on the House floor Things are different compared to this exercise four years ago, as the relatively routine, almost ceremonial, process of certifying the Electoral College was changed forever on January 6, 2021, in the wake of Capitol riot
Jeffries said there are no "election deniers" Among Democrats, despite “illegitimate” statements In 2016, when Trump won, Capitol Police began restricting vehicle traffic on the streets surrounding the Capitol complex early Monday morning.
Access to the House and Senate office buildings is limited to members, staff, and visitors who are there in Official functions: There will be only a few pedestrian access points to the Capitol grounds, and official tours of the Capitol have been suspended. Johnson will begin convening the House of Representatives at approximately 1 p.m. EST on Monday.
House Secretary of the House of Representatives Bill McFarland will announce the arrival of Harris and the senators as they enter the House chamber. < /p>
Members of the House Administration Committee and the Senate Rules Committee will serve as "screeners" To assist in counting electoral votes.
Harris will announce that the House and Senate are meeting in joint session, and declare "that the election certificates are authentic and correct in form>
Starting with Alabama, he will likely read One poll worker said: “The certificate of electoral vote for the state of Alabama appears to be regular in form and reliable.
It therefore appears that Donald John Trump of the state of Florida received Nine votes for President, while J.D. Vance of Ohio received nine votes for Vice President.
In late 2022, lawmakers made several changes to the "Electoral Vote Count Act" of 1887.
Congress initially passed the Electoral Vote Count Act in response to the disputed election of 1876.
Multiple states sent competing slates of electors to Washington. < /p>
Lawmakers decided that there were no formal procedures for counting the Electoral College results, as Democrat Samuel Tilden won the popular vote, but President Rutherford B. Hayes won the White House – after a special committee appointed by Congress presented him with twenty disputed electoral votes.
The Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 clarified the role of the vice president in the joint session of Congress.
President-elect Trump and other loyalists relied on then-Vice President Pence to assert himself in this process.
Many demanded the acceptance of alternative lists of electors from the states concerned.
The updated law stipulates that the vice president’s role is simply “ministerial.”
The new law stipulates that the vice president lacks the authority “to determine or accept or reject, arbitrate, or resolve disputes regarding the correct list of electors, the health of electors, or the votes of electors.
Meanwhile, Vice President Harris is mocked for failing to deliver the opening line of the Pledge of Allegiance: "What a “Embarrassment” The new law also created an expedited judicial appeals process for lawsuits over electoral votes.
Finally, the law changed the way lawmakers themselves could challenge a state’s slate of electors during the joint session.
The old system required one member of the House of Representatives and one member of the Senate to sign a petition challenging the election results in a particular state.
In 2021, Republicans plan to challenge six states In 2001, several members of the Congressional Black Caucus tried to challenge Florida’s voter list, but they did not have any participating in the Senate. After Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., filed to cast doubt on Florida’s electoral votes, Al Gore asked her — again, watching his own electoral loss — whether the California Democrat had a caucus in the Senate.
Waters responded that she did not do that and “did not care,” and Gore then responded by announcing his waiver of the elections and addressing the political wounds left by the bitter elections in which he lost to the president. Bush.
Gore said the president would advise that the rules should be taken into account, and his attack on Waters sparked a wave of bipartisan applause in the House of Representatives.
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