In a letter to her Democratic colleagues, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi encouraged her caucus to continue with the Electoral College ratification of the election victory of President-elect Joe Biden after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, CBS News reports.
“We always knew this responsibility would take us into the night. The night may still be long but we are hopeful for a shorter agenda, but our purpose will be accomplished,” she wrote, saying the violence cannot “deter us from our responsibility to validate the election of Joe Biden.”
South Carolina Democratic Congressman Jim Clyburn, a veteran of the Civil Rights marches in the 1960s, also tweeted support for carrying out their duty: “I have faced violent hatred before. I was not deterred then, and I will not be deterred now. Tonight, Congress will continue the business of certifying the electoral college votes.”