Rep. Chip RoyCharles (Chip) Eugene RoyHouse GOP Lawmaker: Trump would be ‘100% correct’ if he vetoed relief law Republicans press FBI for briefing on attempts by Chinese government officials to gain influence over lawmakers House Republicans who fail filed with the lawsuit in Texas (R-Texas) on Sunday challenged the seats of lawmakers from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
They are all president-elect states Joe Biden
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Roy – one of the few conservatives who did not support attempts to challenge the results of the January 6 presidential election – argued that if there were widespread voter fraud, it would change the results of the presidential election, as many of his colleagues claim. . the legitimacy of the results of the vote are also called into question.
“ Such allegations – if true – raise significant doubts about the election of at least some of the members of the United States House of Representatives which, if not addressed formally, could cast a dark cloud of suspicion over the validity of this body for the duration of the 117th Congress, ”he said in a statement. After all, those representatives were elected through the same systems – with the same voting procedures, with the same signature validations, with the same widely adopted decisions of executive and judicial officials – as were the voters elected for the President of the United States. States under the laws of those states, which have become the subject of national controversies. “
“ And while the legislature of those states has not sent us any formal direction that the results of these elections should not be honored by this body, it would confuse basic human reason if the presidential results were to be objected to, while The results of the Congress of the same process escaped without public scrutiny, ”he added.
Each of the six states in question certified Biden as the winner of the election, saying there was nothing inappropriate about the election.
Leader of the majority of the house Steny Hoyer
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Only two lawmakers voted against allowing Pelosi to take the oath to members of the House: Reps. Morgan Griffith
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