The senior most Senator. That would have been Chuck Grassley back then. I think he made some statements prior to the certification process that he believed that was actually going to be the case. There is more that hasn't come out yet. Looks like Chuck was told to stand by and stand back and Pence somehow managed to upset that plan (& hence deserved the hanging).
The Jan 6th committee has done an excellent job tying the event (& the events leading upto that day) to TFG. But they aren't investigating these peripheral actors (Chuck, Mike Lee, Lindsey, Ted Cruz etc. and the roles they played in enabling TFG) and others (for e.g. there was news/rumors that Mike Flynn's brother was in charge of the National Guard and played a role in them NOT getting deployed on time to push back the insurrectionists leaving the capitol police fighting alone).
Collectively America (at least a part of) has decided we have to get rid of TFG and then everything gets back to normal. Not enough acknowledgement that he was an useful idiot. He is/was the symptom, not the disease.
Decided to look it up. Grassley didn't become the president pro tem until 1/20/21. It was Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont. That would have been interesting!
Nope. It was Chuck Grasseley indeed. The senior most senator from the majority party gets to replace the VP and as of Jan 6, 2021, the Rs still had control of the senate. Patrick Leahy is now in that position. HereтАЩs a snippet of the rules from Wikipedia.
тАЬSince 1890, the most senior U.S. senator in the majority party has generally been chosen to be president pro tempore and holds the office continuously until the election of another.тАЬ
I also distinctly remember that Grasseley had assumed he will step into that role and made some statements that he had later deflect. How he knew there was a possibility Pence might skip his certification duties on that day is a mystery and intriguing. Like I said earlier there seemed to be a lot more coordinating that happened but is not being investigated.
Then the Wiki article I read reversed the last 2 names. Bummer. (There's another Wiki article that listed them correctly.) I read the wrong article. :-)
I'm too lazy to do the research, but . . . Does anyone know who can certify if the VP wasn't available due to sickness or whatever?
The senior most Senator. That would have been Chuck Grassley back then. I think he made some statements prior to the certification process that he believed that was actually going to be the case. There is more that hasn't come out yet. Looks like Chuck was told to stand by and stand back and Pence somehow managed to upset that plan (& hence deserved the hanging).
The Jan 6th committee has done an excellent job tying the event (& the events leading upto that day) to TFG. But they aren't investigating these peripheral actors (Chuck, Mike Lee, Lindsey, Ted Cruz etc. and the roles they played in enabling TFG) and others (for e.g. there was news/rumors that Mike Flynn's brother was in charge of the National Guard and played a role in them NOT getting deployed on time to push back the insurrectionists leaving the capitol police fighting alone).
Collectively America (at least a part of) has decided we have to get rid of TFG and then everything gets back to normal. Not enough acknowledgement that he was an useful idiot. He is/was the symptom, not the disease.
Decided to look it up. Grassley didn't become the president pro tem until 1/20/21. It was Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont. That would have been interesting!
Nope. It was Chuck Grasseley indeed. The senior most senator from the majority party gets to replace the VP and as of Jan 6, 2021, the Rs still had control of the senate. Patrick Leahy is now in that position. HereтАЩs a snippet of the rules from Wikipedia.
тАЬSince 1890, the most senior U.S. senator in the majority party has generally been chosen to be president pro tempore and holds the office continuously until the election of another.тАЬ
I also distinctly remember that Grasseley had assumed he will step into that role and made some statements that he had later deflect. How he knew there was a possibility Pence might skip his certification duties on that day is a mystery and intriguing. Like I said earlier there seemed to be a lot more coordinating that happened but is not being investigated.
Then the Wiki article I read reversed the last 2 names. Bummer. (There's another Wiki article that listed them correctly.) I read the wrong article. :-)