Michigan House gives oversight committee subpoena powers to continue election probe
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
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The House committee continuing an investigation into Michigan’s election process will now have additional subpoena powers, lawmakers determined in a 58-51 vote Tuesday.
Under House Resolution 342, the House Oversight Committee now has the ability to issue subpoenas for information related to Michigan’s 2020 primary and general elections.
Following the House vote, both the House and Senate oversight committees the latter of which already had subpoena powers issued subpoenas to Livonia City Clerk Susan Nash and Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey for information and communications.
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Biden s Swearing-In Ceremony Reduced to Around 1,200 People Amid COVID Concerns
On 12/16/20 at 2:48 PM EST
The inaugural festivities will deeply scaled back next month as the coronavirus pandemic continues to surge nationally, with organizers limiting the allotment of tickets to members of Congress and one guest each.
The bipartisan Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC), a group of House and Senate leaders that oversees the formal swearing in, normally distributes 200,000 tickets across U.S. House and Senate offices to distribute to constituents, who fill the National Mall during the ceremony. The new cap puts attendance closer to 1,200 about the size of a State of the Union address, though the event is held outside on the Capitol steps instead of in the cramped House chamber.
By: CBS News
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn into office at the U.S. Capitol next month, following a tradition dating back to Thomas Jefferson, who was the first president to be sworn in Washington in 1801. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the traditional inauguration festivities will be far smaller than those in recent history.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC), which oversees planning for the event, announced health protocols to promote safety on Inauguration Day, January 20. The committee said it was working with the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies to plan an event that honors and resembles sacred American traditions while keeping Americans safe and preventing the spread of COVID-19.
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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is staying out of the fraught selection process to fill her Senate seat.
A senior Harris aide told the
Washington Examiner that the California Democrat has discussed the soon-to-be-vacant seat with Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is due to appoint her successor, but insists that the selection is up to him. She believes that it is a decision for Gov. Newsom to make. She has communicated that, and she thinks he is going to make the decision that s best for the state, but she does believe it s his decision, this aide said.
Newsom has bemoaned “the stress of having to choose between a lot of friends, to choose between quality candidates and the fact that whoever you pick, there are going to be a lot of people who are going to be upset,” and pointed to a full-throttle lobbying effort that kicked up as soon as President-elect Joe Biden tapped Harris as his running mate.
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