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RT @frankthorp: Senate voting NOW on procedural motion related to the House-passed resolution to establish a January 6th Commission. The mo… — PolitiTweet.org

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The Senate will move shortly to a vote on the Jan. 6 commission and will wait and resume China consideration after they return from Memorial Day recess. — PolitiTweet.org

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Rand Paul says, "I think our self esteem comes from what we do for a living," which may be the most Gen X thing I've heard said on the Senate floor. — PolitiTweet.org

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Well. I guess I'm done with this party. — PolitiTweet.org

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Lists of questions that you didn't have enough time to ask during a committee hearing might qualify as "Senate floor speeches that could have been a tweet." — PolitiTweet.org

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Ron Johnson complains about the lack of regular order. And then proceeds to spend more than 25 minutes - and still going - talking about an issue unrelated to the bill on the floor because he can't get a rider amendment attached to the legislation. — PolitiTweet.org

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But did someone tell Johnson that if they all sit there and listen to him, he will drop the objection in exchange? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @igorbobic: “I’m getting some liquor and taking a nap,” Coons says leaving the floor same — PolitiTweet.org

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Johnson could have given this speech at basically any point in the last five hours. When there was an empty chamber. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm trying to think of how many instances there have been of cases where a senator held up a vote in part so they could compel the rest of the Senate to sit there and listen to them talk at length about an issue at the center of deep partisan divisions. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianros1 @LisaDNews That should have said aren't mystery amendments! — PolitiTweet.org

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That's a safe bet. — PolitiTweet.org

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Ron Johnson just really nails this whole thing: They didn't include his amendments because the people negotiating the bill knew from the beginning he was going to oppose the bill. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianros1 @LisaDNews Also these are mystery amendments. They didn't just lock themselves in a room and start drafting new language. It all came from amendments that had been filed and gone through markup - some in a prior congress. That's how this works. — PolitiTweet.org

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I mean all this and I'm pretty sure the courts have held the president's Article 2 powers wouldn't let Congress declare that something had to be a treaty. Pretty broad executive power there. — PolitiTweet.org

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And now @SenatorCantwell points out that Mike Lee complains that there wasn't enough of a process -- and the committee worked through 130 amendments he sponsored. — PolitiTweet.org

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So they're mad they can't have three more hours to read the thing that they could have spent the last five hours reading while the Senate waited? — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe because the Senate hasn't done anything by regular order in so long they don't realize what regular order looks like. Cause they keep describing regular order when they say there should be regular order. — PolitiTweet.org

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And now Ron Johnson is asking that the Senate come back and vote at 2:30 a.m. instead of 11:30 p.m. because three hours in the middle of the night is going to allow them to read all the amendments. — PolitiTweet.org

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All these Republican senators are like, "Regular order! But at least this is more regular order than..." checks notes. "Someone else running the Senate, not sure who, someone." — PolitiTweet.org

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The dog thought the gavel was someone knocking on the door and freaked out and almost woke up the baby, which is a real-life CSPAN watching problem. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sahilkapur: The Jan. 6 bill debacle calls to mind something a Hill staffer told me a few years ago: Democrats always think Republicans… — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve said this before. But there’s no reason the Senate - or Congress - has to do important things in the middle of the night. They could have done this on Tuesday at noon. But no. Artificial deadlines are what keeps these 535 adults doing their jobs. — PolitiTweet.org

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And now @SenatorCantwell says she and @SenatorWicker wished this was the wrap up on the China bill. But its not. Bipartisan agreement that it should be. Endorsement from basically everyone. — PolitiTweet.org

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Did I leave a social function full of fully vaccinated people drinking drinks and eating food and talking in crowded close quarters and am now at home watching the U.S. Senate? Yes. Will I now tweet about the Senate? Yes, I will. — PolitiTweet.org

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I actually gasped. — PolitiTweet.org

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What if every story that includes some form of, "liberals frustrated Joe Manchin won't..." instead was, "liberals realize not everyone in their own party agrees with them..."? — PolitiTweet.org

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There is some self-awareness. — PolitiTweet.org

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My living room (office) today is just the sound of cicadas and the hum of the Senate floor on C-Span. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HenryJGomez: Source passed this along: Brad Parscale and his team are in Wadsworth, Ohio today shooting footage with Jim Renacci (left… — PolitiTweet.org