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Panels in both chambers to take up presidential elector overhauls

WASHINGTON — With the calendar winding down on a 117th Congress that began with rioters storming the Capitol, lawmakers in both chambers on Friday announced plans to take up bills that overhaul a 135-year-old law governing the counting of presidential electoral votes.

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Panels in both chambers to take up presidential elector overhauls - Roll Call

House and Senate committees both announced Friday they will take up bills to overhaul the Electoral Count Act.

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New light shed on Jan.6 materials

"The tranches we've received have been significant," Committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson said

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House panel gets more Secret Service records in Jan. 6 probe

The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol assault has received additional material from the Secret Service in response to a subpoena, but members aren’t saying whether it sheds new light on missing agency text messages.

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Bipartisan House bill aims to overhaul electoral count - Roll Call

A stalled Senate package to overhaul the law governing the counting of electoral votes gets a House counterpart.

Roll Call

Jan 6 committee members back Biden remarks on Trump ‘fascism’ after rally guest defends neo-Nazi rioter

Joe Biden’s warnings of creeping fascism on the pro-Trump right have fired up ex-president’s followers and dissenters alike

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What's the TV schedule for the next round of Jan. 6 committee hearings?

The House Jan. 6 select committee is expected hold at least one more hearing in September. But it has raised so many questions about the events surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol that it's unclear whether the panel will get to them all.

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Liz Cheney says January 6 committee still wants to hear from Mike Pence in person

Former VP would consider invitation to appear as discussions continue with counsel

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Alex Jones’ Jan 6 texts turned over to House select committee, report says

Mr Jones’ text messages were reportedly provided to select committee after the conspiracy theorist’s own lawyers gave them to attorneys who were suing him

The Independent UK

Commentary: Democrats missed their window to pass redistricting reform

“State constitutional bans on gerrymandering in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, and other states could die, as could independent redistricting commissions in Arizona, California, Michigan and other states,” according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

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Secret Service agents refuse to testify

Anonymous news reports said Tony Ornato and Bobby Engel were willing to testify under oath. Now, not so much

Salon

Secret Service tells House it’s still seeking lost Jan. 6 texts

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service has failed so far to provide Congress with any substantial new agency text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, but assures the House committee investigating last year’s Capitol attack it will continue searching for the lost material.

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Secret Service handed over a single text exchange amid uproar over deleted Jan 6 evidence

‘The Secret Service adamantly denied that they were either stonewalling ... or that the text messages were lost’, Florida Democrat says

The Independent UK

January 6 committee to receive deleted Secret Service texts, Democrat says

Agency’s account about how text messages from day before and day of the Capitol attack were erased has shifted several times

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Jan 6 panel teases Thursday’s primetime hearing with ‘minute-by-minute’ account of Trump’s actions

Republican Adam Kinzinger told CBS that the revelations would ‘open people’s eyes in a big way’ to how Mr Trump felt personally about the hordes of rioters descending upon the Capitol

The Independent UK

Panel: Hearing to show Trump 'dereliction of duty' on Jan 6

A prime-time hearing Thursday will offer the most compelling evidence yet of then-President Donald Trump’s “dereliction of duty” on the day of the Jan. 6 insurrection

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Jan. 6 panel to receive Secret Service texts after data loss

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol assault expects to receive text messages it has subpoenaed from the Secret Service by Tuesday, panel member Zoe Lofgren said.

The Independent UK

Jan 6 panel dropped evidence linking Trump figures to Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, committee chairman reveals

Including the testimony of former White House counsel Pat Cipollone meant cutting evidence connecting the president’s allies to extremist groups

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Jan 6 panel pushes to link Trump to Capitol violence – a timeline

Panel: Trump knew there was no evidence of voter fraud, but told supporters to come to Washington, DC, on Jan 6 anyway.

The Independent UK

Jan 6 hearings – live: Trump reported to Department of Justice for phoning witness, Liz Cheney reveals

Follow live for latest news and updates on January 6 hearings in Congress

The Independent UK

Jan 6 hearings – live: Trump election probe in Georgia gets a win as Lindsey Graham ordered to testify

Follow live for latest news and updates on January 6 hearings in Congress

The Independent UK

Trump rants at ‘psychco’ Liz Cheney and claims he ‘doesn’t even recognise’ Cassidy Hutchinson as he braces for two more Jan 6 hearings

Ms Hutchinson’s testimony regarding Mr Trump’s actions on January 6 is still gnawing at the former president

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Bannon agrees to testify to Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigators

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s onetime adviser Steve Bannon has agreed to testify to the House Committee investigating last year’s storming of the U.S. Capitol, after the former president waived an assertion of executive privilege.

The Independent UK

Jan. 6 panel sets prime-time hearing on Trump, awaits Bannon

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot is returning to prime time with a Thursday evening hearing that will examine the three-hour plus stretch when Donald Trump failed to act as a mob of supporters stormed the Capitol

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Trump’s White House counsel ‘did not contradict’ testimony of previous Jan 6 witnesses

Crucial testimony comes ahead of two more public hearings this week

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