Your analogy is a poor one.
SCOTUS had to step in re the Bush/Gore decision. Here, SCOTUS should have been the final arbitrator and SCOTUS made a decision not to hear the case.
Then, Congress bypassed SCOTUS -- that did not happen in 2000, which makes your analogy a poor one.
The point I am making and what the Congresman is making is simple: Congress overstepped their authority and took a piece of the Constitution along with it.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
No they didn't. They could have simply let stand the Florida State decision.
However, they correctly saw that the state officials were in effect violating the rights of voters by allowing their Democrat buddies to cherry pick which Democrat county votes they would double count, and which "dimpled and pregnant chads" they would choose to count.
In this case, the US legislature (remember your civics class, the three co-equal branches of government) saw what they perceived to be a Fla state court/judge which violated the rights of a woman who is about to be put to death by accepting a hearsay claim by a husband who has a vested interest in seeing her dead.
You know, it's funny. I flipped past Larry King Live tonight and there was Larry King asking Michael Shiavo if he, when she got sick back in 1992, had promised her he would pull the plug.
"Yes I did, Larry." Michael said. "We both promised each other ...."""
Now ask yourself, how in the freaking world did she speak to him back then when she had gone immediately into potassium deprived unconsciousness and has never since regained her voice.