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To: ScottinVA

Pretty sure it is the new. They’re sworn in at the beginning of January, and when the present process was put in place, the president didn’t take office until late March.


22 posted on 11/04/2016 9:02:27 AM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: Hieronymus

The CURRENT house (including senate) does the vote. It is an “immediate” tie-breaker vote per 12th Amendment.


28 posted on 11/04/2016 9:12:35 AM PDT by DRey
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