WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 09: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) answers questions at the U.S. Capitol on July 09, 2019 in Washington, DC. Senate Majority Leaders Chuck Schumer answered a range of questions during the press conference including queries on recent court cases involving the Affordable Care Act. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) is at the forefront of a group pushing for a bipartisan deal to reform the 1887 Electoral Count Act.
The centrist senator looks to outline a framework as soon as this week, but the number of Republicans who are on board think Manchin’s timeline is too ambitious.
Members of the Senate began discussing Electoral Count Act reform late last month. The 135-year-old law outlines how votes should be counted. The bipartisan group leading talks on reform are looking for ways to make it more difficult to discard certified electoral votes when Congress comes together to count them, in light of last year’s Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
The evenly split Senate has struggled to get partisan issues passed. Even though the Democrats have the tie-breaker with Vice President Kamala Harris, the Republicans with the help of Manchin and Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Arizona) on some issues have stalled President Joe Biden‘s Build Back Better trillion-dollar spending bill and voting rights acts.
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