The joint session of Congress’s certification of the 2024 presidential election Monday was significantly less eventful than the 2021 session to certify the 2020 election, a fact former Vice President Mike Pence commended.

The 2020 election certification by Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, was interrupted by a violent mob, while Monday’s session marked the first time since 1989 that a presidential victory in the Electoral College was not objected to by some members of Congress. In 2001, 2005, and 2017, Democrats objected to GOP victories, while in 2021, Republicans objected to President Joe Biden’s victory.