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White House News (白宮消息) | Jan. 4,

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JANUARY 3, 2021
Opening Day 117th Congress U.S. House of Representatives
The House of Representatives held the first session of the 117th Congress, including election of the Speaker of the House, and swearing in of newly elected members.


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi administers the oath of office to members of the 117th Congress at the US Capitol on Sunday
Congress opens new session as virus and election result dominate


The US Congress convened on Sunday for the start of a new session, swearing in legislators during a tumultuous period as a growing number of Republicans work to overturn Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump and the coronavirus surges.

Jan. 4 - Democrat Nancy Pelosi was re-elected House speaker by her party, which retains the majority in the House but with the slimmest margin in 20 years after a surprisingly strong GOP performance in November’s election.

Opening the Senate could be among Mitch McConnell’s final acts as majority leader. Republican control is in question until Tuesday’s run-off elections for two Senate seats in Georgia. The outcome will determine which party holds the chamber...

...The extraordinary Republican effort to overturn the presidential election was condemned on Sunday by an outpouring of current and former GOP officials warning the effort was undermining Americans’ faith in democracy.

“The scheme by members of Congress to reject the certification of the presidential election makes a mockery of our system and who we are as Americans,” said of Maryland’s Republican governor Larry Hogan.

Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the third-ranking House Republican, warned in a memo to colleagues that objections to the Electoral College results “set an exceptionally dangerous precedent”.     source


Trump Crosses a Bright-Red Line

The president’s nonstop abuse of power seems determined to force a reckoning.

Jan. 3 - In a bombshell conversation with Georgia’s secretary of state yesterday, President Donald Trump made monkeys of every Republican official and every conservative talking head who professed to believe Trump’s allegations of voter fraud. The president himself made clear that he had only one end in view: overturning the 2020 election.

You knew this already, of course. Anyone connected to reality knew it. Even most of Trump’s political allies probably knew it. But important incentives induced people in the pro-Trump camp to pretend otherwise. And now, as so often happens, Trump has yanked away the protective deception to reveal the truth.

And now again, Trump presents the country with a crisis and a conundrum.
What Trump did on that call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, first reported by The Washington Post this afternoon, might well have been a crime...     more details

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