:03:00
What we need now is acceptance.
:03:04
We have a new President-elect.
:03:06
Heh.
:03:08
It turns out none of this was a dream.
:03:11
It's what really happened.
:03:15
On the day the joint-session
of both the House
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of Representatives and the Senate
:03:19
was to certify the election results,
:03:22
Al Gore, in his dual role
as outgoing Vice President
:03:25
and President of the Senate,
:03:28
presided over the event that would
officially annoint
:03:30
George W. Bush as the new President.
:03:35
If any Congressman wanted to raise
an objection,
:03:37
the rules insisted that he or she
:03:40
had to have the signed support
of just one Senator.
:03:44
Mr. President,
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and I take great pride in calling you that,
:03:48
um, I must object because
of the overwhelming evidence
:03:51
of official misconduct, deliberate..
:03:55
The chairman must remind members
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that under Section 18,
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Title 3 of the United States Code,
:04:01
no debate is allowed in the joint-session.
:04:03
Thank you Mr. President,
:04:04
to answer your question, Mr. President,
:04:05
the objection is in writing,
:04:06
signed by a number of members of the Houseof
Representatives,but not by a member of the Senate.
:04:15
Uh, Mr. President it is in writing
:04:16
and signed by several House colleagues on behalf
:04:19
and myself of the twenty-seven thousand voters
:04:22
of Duval County in which sixteen thousand of them
:04:25
were African-Americans
:04:28
that was disenfranchised in this last election.
:04:31
Is the objection signed
by a member of the Senate?
:04:34
Not signed by a member of the Senate;
:04:36
the Senate is missin'.
:04:38
Mr. President,
:04:39
it is in writing and signed by myself
:04:41
on behalf of many of the diverse constituents
:04:43
in our country,
:04:44
especially those of the 9th congressional district
:04:46
and all American voters who recognize
:04:48
that the Supreme Court,
:04:49
not the people of the United States,
:04:51
decided this election.
:04:52
Is the objection signed by a Senator?
:04:55
Unfortunately, Mr. President,
:04:57
it is not signed by one single senator.
:04:59
Unfortunately,