Extra: Should America Scrap The Electoral College?
The Fox News Rundown
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🗓️ 8 January 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:31.0 | This is the Fox News rundown, Extra. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Dave Anthony. |
| 0:40.0 | Today, something that didn't get a lot of attention around Christmas, |
| 0:45.0 | when it was tucked inside that massive $1.7 trillion dollar omnibus spending bill, |
| 0:51.0 | Congress passed just before the holiday to fund the government through October. |
| 0:56.0 | Something in direct response to the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, |
| 1:02.0 | which was marked with a moment of silence by House Democrats on the Capitol steps on Friday, |
| 1:07.0 | two years to the day after. |
| 1:10.0 | It's called the Electoral Reform Act, |
| 1:14.0 | and it updates an 1887 law that former President Trump and others cited |
| 1:20.0 | as giving Vice President Pence the authority to block Joe Biden's election certification |
| 1:26.0 | by rejecting some state selectors. |
| 1:30.0 | Well, of course, Vice President Pence did not do that, |
| 1:34.0 | which angered Donald Trump and called him a coward. |
| 1:37.0 | Pence saw his role that day as ceremonial, |
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