I wrote on the homepage that it’s a shame the Senate never held a standalone vote to reform the Electoral Count Act:
On July 20, after months of internal debate and research, a bipartisan group of 16 senators introduced a bill to clarify the Electoral Count Act, the law that Donald Trump’s allies tried to exploit or override during Congress’s counting of Electoral College votes on January 6, 2021.
The Senate ECA-reform bill was passed out of the almost evenly divided committee on September 27 by a 14–1 vote. The lone “no” vote was Texas GOP senator Ted Cruz.
If the bill had received a standalone vote on the Senate floor, it would have passed with overwhelming bipartisan support — over the objections of former president Trump. But Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer never brought the bill up for a vote. Instead, Schumer punted the legislation to after the election and is now tucking the popular, bipartisan ECA-reform bill inside the contentious 4,155-page, $1.7-trillion omnibus spending bill that was released Tuesday morning at 1:30 a.m.
Nebraska GOP senator Ben Sasse, a member of the original bipartisan group of 16 senators who introduced the ECA-reform bill, is displeased with the process. “Two things are true at once: ECA reform is important, trust-building work to protect the peaceful transfer of power; and Omnibus spending bills are an embarrassing, trust-draining way to govern,” Sasse told National Review in a statement Tuesday evening. “Chuck Schumer should have brought ECA reform to the Senate floor sooner, but he was less interested in its substance than in using it as a sweetener in this crap sandwich.”
This isn’t a comprehensive list, but in addition to Sasse, Republican senators Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, and Rand Paul of Kentucky all supported ECA reform but voted against the omnibus.






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