Senators of both parties say they don’t want future vice presidents to be put in the position President Donald Trump forced his understudy into on Jan. 6 by trying to get him to throw out valid Electoral College votes that went against him.
The Senate is considering reforms to the Electoral Count Act, a 135-year-old election law Trump and his allies tried to use to cling to power even after President Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Senators at a Rules Committee hearing on Wednesday argued it was weaponized for purposes outside its intent.
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