Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am delighted to be here with my colleagues tonight and with the chair of our Rules Committee, Amy Klobuchar, who worked so hard and so intensely on the For the People Act and on the For the People Act 2.0, the Freedom to Vote Act, which was sought to address the foundations of democracy in our country. I am delighted to be here with the former Governor and Senator from New Hampshire, who really understands from both the State and national perspective the importance of the rules of democracy, and my colleague from Maine, who was just speaking about the election of 1876, which had so many parallels with the election of 2020 because in that year, there were four States that submitted two different slates. The Republican Party said: Let the Vice President decide because he is targeted in the Constitution to receive the ballots. The Democrats said: Well, he is not given the power in the Constitution to decide which slate of ballots to accept. That led to a standoff and a Commission that was a setup of five Senators, five House Members, and five Supreme Court Justices to try to decide which slate of ballots to accept. As you pointed out, that election led to the Electoral Count Act for the first round. Ten years later, they rewrote it again, but it wasn't sufficient. I just want to compliment him and the work that the entire set of Senators did to bring forward a much improved version that will be included in the omnibus bill we will be considering.…”