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By Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Democratic senators are beginning 2022 where they left 2021: With no clear path to pass their agenda and ample

Today's Water Cooler

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed Democrats in a floor speech Wednesday for using the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to justify proposed filibuster reform to pass election legislation. 

Under traditional U.S. Senate rules, unless every senator agrees otherwise it can take 60 votes to invoke cloture and limit further debate. However, the Senate has established several exceptions.

Republican Rutherford Hayes became the 19th U.S. President during the nations centennial year, defeating Democrat Samuel Tilden by one electoral vote (185 to 184) in what has been called the

It did not happen in the last presidential election despite incumbent President Trumps devious plot to overturn his defeat.

It did not happen in the last presidential election despite incumbent President Trump’s devious plot to overturn his defeat.

Rep. Louie Gohmert, along with a group of would-be Donald Trump electors from Arizona, filed suit against Mike Pence—not for violating the 1887 Electoral Count Act, but for following it. And if that doesn’t sound strange enough already, Gohmert was likely acting as a stand-in for Trump.

Were skeptical of the House Committee that has been investigating the events on January 6 at Capitol Hill. Weve already marked what seems to us an attempt by the committee to breach our separated powers and break President Trumps executive

WASHINGTON -- Members of the select congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol are pressing to overhaul the complex and little-known law that former President Donald Trump and his allies tried to use to overturn the 2020 election, with the members arguing that the ambiguity of the statute puts democracy at risk.