mr. morley? guest: the electoral account act is a federal statute that governs how congress deals with electoral votes within the context of the electoral college. what you are talking about, moving to a national popular vote where we abolish the electoral college, the most direct way of doing that would be a constitutional amendment. there currently is a proposal known as the national popular vote compact that seeks to circumvent the amendment process , seeks to make work within the confines of the electoral college to in effect, -- there are a range of policy and constitutional concerns that have been raised with regard to that proposal. as of right now, the national popular vote compact specifies it will only take effect when states collectively possessing -- that have enough votes on their own to determine the outcome of a president election, it will only take effect when those states have signed on to it. states having about 190 electoral votes have signed on, so they are about two thirds of

mr. morley?uest: the electoral account act is a federal statute that governs how congress deals with electoral votes within the context of the electoral college. what you are talking about, moving to a national popular vote where we abolish the electoral college, the most direct way of doing that would be a constitutional amendment. there currently is a proposal known as the national popular vote compact that seeks to circumvent the amendment process , seeks to make work within the confines of the electoral college to in effect, -- there are a range of policy and constitutional concerns that have been raised with regard to that proposal. as of right now, the national popular vote compact specifies it will only take effect when states collectively possessing -- that have enough votes on their own to determine the outcome of a president election, it will only take effect when those states have signed on to it. states having about 190 electoral votes have signed on, so they are about two thirds of t

mr. morley, i'd like you to address the situation in pennsylvania, it's my understanding that a federal judge just had a ruling stating that what the pennsylvania legislature did with i believe it was a law, 187-something, 1877 or whatever, that nullified the state constitution regarding the election procedures where the state allowed the election to go on further than it should have and also that the, i believe, with mail-in balloting, it went against the state constitution. >> leaving now to capitol hill to hear from russia/ukraine issues, focusing on human rights and security issues, includes nine senators, nine members of the house and one each from state and commerce departments, live coverage here on c-span 3. >> welcome everyone to the hearing of the united states helsinki commission. i want to welcome our two witnesses that are here in person and one who is with us virtually as we have this hearing on russia's assault on

mr. president, vaccine mandates are morley wrong and they're wildly unpopular. millions of americans are still required by this federal mandate to be vaccinated or lose their jobs. the people's elected lawmakers here in congress haven't instituted these mandates. no, there's no federal law putting them in place. president biden and his bureaucrats are just treading deeply into the personal medical choices of americans without an act of congress authorizing them to do so. now, congress has the chance to make these millions of voices across america be heard. that is, after all, our job, our sole job, to make federal law, to give voice to those who elected us. we can state clearly, boldy, decisively today that federal vaccine mandates do not belong in the united states of america. we can stand for millions of vulnerable americans who just want to go to work so that they have the chance simply to put food on the table for their families. that's not too much to ask. the pandemic is waning, and it's waning just as our economic problems are just beginning. if we want t