[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 22 (Thursday, February 3, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H922]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            ATTEMPTS TO OVERTURN ELECTION SHOULD BE PUNISHED

  (Mr. POCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POCAN. Madam Speaker, the attempted insurrection of our 
government on January 6 last year is a stain that will forever live on 
our country, but equally dirty were the other attempts to illegally 
overturn our November 2020 elections, including the shady Trump 
campaign efforts to place false electors in seven States, including my 
home State of Wisconsin.
  Violent attacks on Capitol Police and breaking into the U.S. Capitol 
are very visual scenes of the illegal schemes, but we cannot let the 
more stealthy, yet very strategic, plots of trying to place illegal 
electors to overturn the will of the voters in swing States go by 
unnoticed or unpunished.
  Just yesterday The New York Times released a memo by the Trump 
campaign written a month and a half prior to January 6 setting up the 
case to install false electors in Wisconsin and six other States.
  The problem with these schemes was it also needed complicity from 
then-Vice President Mike Pence, who chose his country over his party 
and didn't illegally overturn the election as the Trump campaign 
wanted.
  Those involved with this illegal attack on our Republic should be 
investigated and held accountable by both the January 6th Select 
Committee as well as the U.S. Department of Justice. Forged documents, 
false claims, and other illegal actions are crimes and are no different 
than the violent attack on the Capitol Building itself. And for that, 
our Nation deserves justice.

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