Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer
12/20/22
(Washington Post) Almost two years after former president Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election culminated in a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters, Congress is set to wrap up its two main responses to that deadly day. Committee members voted Monday to refer four criminal charges against Trump to the Justice Department. Second, congressional leaders are set to include in a year-end spending bill revisions to the Electoral Count Act (ECA), an 1887 law that Trump and his allies tried to use as part of their attempt to overturn the 2020 election results. Serving on the select committee came at a political cost for some lawmakers. However, Adam Bozzi of End Citizens United said the investigation had an impact on the 2022 election that hurt Republicans, too. “I think the Jan. 6 committee over the course of the summer and all the way through the rest of the year reminded people about how bad Jan. 6 was and what’s at stake,” he said.