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The House pushed ahead Wednesday with legislation that would revamp the rules for certifying the results of a presidential election as lawmakers accelerate their response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and Donald Trump’s failed attempt to remain in power. The legislation would overhaul an arcane 1800s-era statute known as the Electoral Count Act that governs, along with the U.S. Constitution, how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners. The House planned a vote on the bill after afternoon debate. […] The legislation intends to ensure that future Jan. 6 sessions are “as the constitution envisioned, a...

Forced to address why her husband tried to use the office of the governor to get his boat in the water ahead of everyone else, @GovWhitmer claims it was just a "failed attempt at humor." short video at link. She did not comment on her failed attempt at governing.

With their photographs in the papers and their instructors gone, the suspects did not know whether to stay or flee – or try again with more explosives. THE squabbling began almost immediately after the four would-be suicide bombers bungled their “martyrdom missions” on July 21. They had failed to emulate their “brothers” who had murdered 52 passengers on the London transport network a fortnight before because their rucksack bombs did not explode. A fifth man had simply “bottled out” and dumped his bomb. The idea had been to die and go to paradise. There was no plan B. These men...

Frist Has Busy 1st Day As Majority Leader By ALAN FRAM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Bill Frist was at work shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday, gave a nationally televised interview an hour later and then went for a four-mile run. By early afternoon, two hours after becoming Senate majority leader, he had won his first floor fight against Democrats. It was the kind of day some lawmakers spend years preparing for. Frist, a Tennessee Republican, had just over two weeks to ready himself to replace Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., who abruptly resigned following racially charged comments. "I'm accustomed...