An attempt to formalize the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s objections to the results of the November general election has failed.

Rep. Kathy Rapp (R-65th) was one of 21 sponsors of a proposed resolution in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives “declaring the results of statewide electoral contests in the 2020 General Election to be in dispute.”

That measure did not make it into the system in time for consideration, but House leaders promise that there they will be looking into the election process in the future.

The resolution, posted Friday afternoon:

¯ “recognizes substantial irregularities and improprieties associated with mail-in balloting, pre-canvassing, and canvassing during the November 3, 2020 election;

¯ disapproves of the infringement on the General Assembly’s authority pursuant to the United States Constitution to regulate elections; disapproves of and disagrees with the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s premature certification of the results of the Nov. 3, 2020 election regarding presidential electors;

¯ declares that the selection of presidential electors and other statewide electoral contest results in this Commonwealth is in dispute;

¯ urges the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Governor to withdraw or vacate the certification of presidential electors and to delay certification of results in other statewide electoral contests voted on at the 2020 General Election; and

¯ urges the United States Congress to declare the selection of presidential electors in this Commonwealth to be in dispute.”

The legislative year was scheduled to adjourn on Monday.

According to House leadership, the measure would expire with the end of the legislative session.

“The Pennsylvania House of Representatives will not be returning to voting session before the constitutionally mandated end of session on Monday, Nov. 30,” according to a Saturday release from Speaker of the House Bryan Cutler (R-100th) and House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-171st). “We are physically unable to consider any new legislation before the end of session. A simple resolution takes three legislative days for consideration and a concurrent resolution takes five legislative days to move through both chambers, which means we do not have the time needed to address any new resolutions in our current session.”

The leaders did not express approval of the election process.

“It is obvious Pennsylvania’s election processes are in dire need of repair,” according to the release. “Our work to ensure the chaos and confusion of the 2020 election are not repeated will continue in the next legislative session.”

“The efforts of the House State Government Committee to further investigate the impacts of interventions by the activist Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the confusing and conflicting guidance by the Secretary of State will continue into next session. Additionally, our chamber voted to call for a complete audit of the election, a process we plan to see completed into the next session as well.”

Neither Cutler nor Benninghoff signed on as co-sponsors.