[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 215 (Friday, December 18, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S7648]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             2020 ELECTION

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, there has been a lot of finger wagging 
across the aisle by both Senate and House Democrats about accepting 
election results. Most of that has been related to whether or not Trump 
would concede the results of the election to Biden. But, obviously, 
there is somewhat of a double standard because these same Democrats are 
mum about a looming challenge to the certified results of the election 
of Iowa's Second Congressional District.
  Representative-Elect Miller-Meeks won by six votes, and that was 
after careful recounts conducted and certified on a bipartisan basis 
according to Iowa law. On election night, the Democratic candidate 
lost. A few days later, two counties were recounted, and the Democratic 
candidate still lost. Then the Democratic candidate asked for a recount 
of all 24 counties, and after that recount, the Democratic candidate 
lost. A day later, the secretary of state of Iowa certified the 
election, just like the secretaries of state of our 50 States certified 
their elections in the Presidential election.
  Now the Democratic opponent chose not to make a case under Iowa law 
to a judicial panel headed by the chief justice of Iowa, presumably 
because there was no legal case.
  Now what happens? The next step is that candidate, under a 1969 
Federal law, can ask the House of Representatives to set aside Iowa's 
election law and overturn Iowa's certified election results through a 
purely political process, which could presumably have a Democratic 
majority of 222 in the U.S. House overturn the votes of 400,000 Iowans.
  Now, getting back to what seems to be a double standard, if 
Democratic leaders do not nip this in the bud now, they have no room to 
point fingers at any other Member of Congress.
  I yield the floor.

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