Why didn’t he ask the question?
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My eternal haunting.
There’s a very simple explanation for why Vice President Cheney didn’t ask the question. Objections to the certification of Obama’s electoral college votes had to be submitted IN WRITING by at least one member of the House and one member of the Senate.
The Vice President had received no written objections, therefore the question was moot.
If any of the 535 members of Congress had wanted to submit a written objection at the last minute, signed by one member of the House and one member of the Senate, all they had to do was alert the Vice President to that fact or else, simply stand up, raise their hand and get acknowledged for a point of order.
None of the 535 members of Congress did that and since the certification of Obama’s electoral college votes, not one single member of Congress has said that they would have raised an objection if Vice President Cheney had asked for objections. The proof is in the pudding.