Congress Returns to Verify Electoral School Votes After Mob Stormed Capitol: Dwell Protection # 2

It should be a joint session of Congress for the rather superficial task of counting the votes confirmed by the states. The complication was supposed to be that some House and Senate Republicans have objected to the counting of votes from states that Donald Trump wished he hadn’t lost, which should take two hours of debate per state.

That was bad enough now, Congress is trying to return from an afternoon spent hiding from a crowd of Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol, broke windows, broke into Spokeswoman Nancy Pelosi’s office, and more – all with suspiciously few arrests. Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz were under pressure to give up their objections to the counting of all votes. Pelosi said in a statement: “The night may still be long, but we hope for a shorter agenda, but our goal will be achieved. “