The omnibus included a bipartisan measure reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887, the ancient law whose ambiguities were exploited by the perpetrators of the January 6 insurrection
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After a crisis over an immigration amendment that briefly threatened to screw up everything on Wednesday night, the Senate cleared a $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill on Thursday that should enable a quick House rubber stamp, keeping the federal government functioning and letting members of Congress race to airports in an effort to beat an oncoming winter storm.
The omnibus was already on thin ice thanks to House Republican opposition when the Senate encountered its own sudden storm over acutting Department of Homeland Security spending if the Biden administration persisted in efforts to revoke a regulation that it and the Trump administration had used to deport migrants pending resolution of their claims for legal entry.
Leaders of both parties had already decided that if the omnibus failed, they’d be forced to enact another stopgap spending measure that would keep the government functioning into 2023 at the cost of giving House Republicans an opportunity to renegotiate the entire spending package once they took over that chamber on January 3.
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