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PDF: Congressional Democrats ratify Bush election coup in US

Download 4 times Source: www.wsws.org // Topic: Election File Size: 13.20 kb // Total of Page: 1 Page(s) Share this info: Sample of page (click to enlarge) Short Desciption: 8 January 2001. At a joint session of the US Congress January 6 to count the Electoral. College vote in the 2000 election, Democratic leaders of the House ... Content Inside: World Socialist Web SiteTM www.wsws.org Congressional Democrats ratify Bush election coup in US By Patrick Martin 8 January 2001 At a joint session of the US Congress January 6 to count the Electoral College vote in the 2000 election, Democratic leaders of the House and Senate officially submitted to the hijacking of the presidency by the Republican Party and the US Supreme Court and the installation of George W. Bush in the White House. Although 20 Democratic congressmen, mainly members of the Congressional Black Caucus, formally objected to the awarding of Floridas 25 electoral votes to Bush, not one of the 50 Democratic senators would join in the objection, as required by an 1887 law governing the counting of the electoral vote. If even a single Democratic senator had signed an objection, the joint session would have adjourned and the House and Senate would have convened separately to vote, with a majority of both