You can piss away 2 hours debating each contention, so if someone in each chamber wants to really push things, you can potentially drag the whole thing out so long that Pence never gets to open the envelopes. Also it's possible that the House and the Senate each vote differently. There's a lot of argument over what happens then, legally speaking. This is new territory.
You can piss away 2 hours debating each contention, so if someone in each chamber wants to really push things, you can potentially drag the whole thing out so long that Pence never gets to open the envelopes. Also it's possible that the House and the Senate each vote differently. There's a lot of argument over what happens then, legally speaking. This is new territory.