<p>Schumer and McConnell have yet to reach an agreement on so-called organizing resolution that establishes the rules and committee assignments of the new session. As <em>Common Dreams</em> <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/22/basically-trying-overturn-senate-election-mcconnell-delaying-democratic-takeover" target="_blank">reported</a> Friday, the Kentucky Republican is holding up the measure in an effort to preserve the legislative filibuster, an archaic 60-vote rule that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/06/kill-filibuster-senate-democrats-urged-act-quickly-end-era-gop-obstruction" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">progressives are urging Democrats to eliminate</a>.</p> <iframe src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=commondreams&creatorUserId=14296273&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1352427075538460672&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fnews%2F2021%2F01%2F22%2Fschumer-urged-deny-committee-seats-hawley-cruz-and-other-republicans-who-incited&siteScreenName=commondreams&siteUserId=14296273&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=550px" style="position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px; height: 774px; flex-grow: 1;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe> <p>MoveOn's demand came amid <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/11/7000-lawyers-law-students-demand-hawley-and-cruz-resign-inciting-violence-and-terror" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">growing calls</a> for the immediate resignation or expulsion of Cruz and Hawley, the most prominent <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/07/co-conspirators-sedition-here-are-names-every-republican-who-voted-overturn-election" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Republican senators</a> to vote against the certification of Biden's Electoral College victory earlier this month. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the number three Democrat in the Senate, is among those who have demanded that Cruz and Hawley step aside for inciting the January 6 invasion of the halls of Congress.</p><p>"Any senator who stands up and supports the power of force over the power of democracy has broken their oath of office," Murray <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/08/top-senate-democrat-patty-murray-hawley-and-cruz-should-resign" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a> in a statement two days after the attack. "Senators Hawley and Cruz should resign."</p><p>On Thursday, as <em>Common Dreams</em> <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/21/good-first-step-senators-file-ethics-complaint-over-cruz-and-hawleys-role-capitol" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reported</a>, a group of Senate Democrats demanded that the Ethics Committee launch a "thorough and fair investigation" into Cruz and Hawley and "consider any appropriate consequences."</p><p>"Cruz and Hawley continued to amplify the claims of fraud that they likely knew to be baseless and that had led to violence earlier that day," reads the Democrats' ethics complaint against their GOP colleagues. "Violent action provoked by false fraud claims remains a persistent threat."</p>
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