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Monday's joint session will be governed by a revised set of procedures that clarify the vice president's role, a change aimed at preventing attempts to overturn election results.

Vice President Kamala Harris presided over a brisk and uneventful counting of the Electoral College tally on Monday, when she ...

Usually, the popular vote winner matches the Electoral College winner, but not always. Twice this century, in 2000 and 2016, the person elected president got the support of fewer American voters ...

The archaic vestige of a compromise with pro-slavery Southerners during the 18th century debate over the U.S. Constitution, the Electoral College can – and has, as recently as 2016 – thwarted the will ...

The congressional joint session to count electoral votes is expected to be much less eventful than the certification four ...

George Washington University Associate Professor and Legislative Affairs Director Casey Burgat talked about Congress meeting in a joint session to count and certify the 2024 electoral votes and the ...

Something I recall as I sat in this room, right there, next to President Bill Clinton when we were both electors in 2016,” Hochul said. “In short, the Electoral College does not contribute to ...

The House of Representatives and the Senate met in a joint session of Congress to count the 2024 Electoral College votes and certify Donald Trump and J.D. Vance as the next President and Vice ...

Most of these “Electoral College lobbyists” argued that Barack Obama was ineligible to serve as president, falsely claiming he was not an American citizen. In 2016, every single Republican ...

The House floor convenes before a joint session of the House and Senate convenes to count the Electoral College votes on January 6, 2021. More than 150 million Americans cast ballots for president ...