Rep. Chip RoyCharles (Chip) Eugene RoyHouse Republican Party Legislator: Trump would be “100% correct” in vetoing the relief bill Republicans are pressing the FBI to report on efforts by Chinese government members to gain influence with Republican House legislators who did not sign the Texas process MORE (R-Texas) on Sunday challenged the seat of lawmakers from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
All are states where the president-elect Joe Biden
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Roy – one of the few conservatives who did not support the effort to challenge the results of the presidential election on January 6 – argued that if there were widespread electoral fraud, it would change the results of the presidential election, as many of his colleagues claim, the legitimacy of voting results are also questioned.
“Such allegations – if true – raise significant doubts about the elections of at least some of the members of the United States House of Representatives who, if not dealt with formally, could cast a black cloud of suspicion over the validity of this body during the 117th period. Congress, “he said in a statement. “After all, these representatives were elected by the same systems – with the same voting procedures, with the same signature validations, with the same widely applied decisions by executive and judicial officials – as the voters chosen for the President of the United States. under the laws of those states, which have become the subject of national controversy. “
“And although the legislatures of those states have not sent us any formal indication that the results of these elections should not be honored by this body, basic human reason would be confusing if the presidential results faced objections, while the results of the same process in Congress escaped. without public scrutiny, “he added.
Each of the six states in question certified Biden as the winner of the election and said there was nothing inappropriate about the election.
Majority leader in the Chamber Steny Hoyer
Steny Hamilton HoyerHouse approves a bill that increases stimulus checks to $ 2,000 in bipartisan votes. Democrats say $ 10,000 direct payments will pass the House in one way or another. (D-Md.) Quickly opposed Roy’s attempt, offering a resolution authorizing the Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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Only two lawmakers voted against allowing Pelosi to administer the oath to members of the House: Reps. Morgan Griffith
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Updated at 7:45 pm