Rep. Lauren Boebert offered a "rational" amendment, but the House Rules Committee chairman blocked it.
Rep. Jim McGovern said his committee's "new rule" is that "if you're batshit crazy, you're not getting an amendment," a new book says.
His recollection is described in "Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind."
"As McGovern would recall it, his response was, 'We have a new rule in the Rules Committee.
One Republican member told McGovern that, because of the riot, he would vote to uphold the election results.