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Senate Rs speak 3 times a week during normal times. These are not normal times: They haven't had a conference meeting since McConnell pressed Hawley, who was absent, on challenging the election on Dec. 31 A look at the Senate GOP ahead of impeachment https://t.co/WGEQ0rl5gF — PolitiTweet.org

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@AmericanLife777 No this is in the Capitol — PolitiTweet.org

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Can confirm that this room is extremely depressing — PolitiTweet.org

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The word “dystopian” gets thrown a lot, but an armored Green Zone surrounding a Capitol that was attacked 9 days ago amid a deadly pandemic and a totally abandoned downtown core dotted with people living in tents ... it feels right — PolitiTweet.org

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Same view, back towards the Cap https://t.co/xaaii5GvIe — PolitiTweet.org

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View from inside the Green Zone near Massachusetts Ave, toward Union Station https://t.co/asvgnSvAez — PolitiTweet.org

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The PAC has raised nearly $15,000 today since we published our story, the source adds — PolitiTweet.org

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Hawley spox on new PAC aimed at defeating him: "We expect Claire McCaskill and her team will be as effective with this campaign as they were with the last. They wasted more than $60 million in 2018 - and lost" McCaskill unaware of effort, per source https://t.co/mBe4cshHgK — PolitiTweet.org

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@jzembik Sasse was actually the pro forma senator today but we weren't able to chat with him. He used one of those secret exits — PolitiTweet.org

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... These men weren’t drunks who got rowdy — they were terrorists attacking this country’s constitutionally-mandated transfer of power. They failed, but they came dangerously close to starting a bloody constitutional crisis. They must be prosecuted to the fullest extent" — PolitiTweet.org

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Sasse statement: "Every American needs to understand what the Department of Justice has just made public: Investigators have strong evidence to suggest that some of the rioters who stormed the United States Capitol planned to kidnap and possibly assassinate the Vice President ... — PolitiTweet.org

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Pretty rare for politicians to apologize. Lankford does it here “I should have recognized how what I said and what I did could be interpreted by many of you,” he said. “I deeply regret my blindness to that perception, and for that I am sorry.” — PolitiTweet.org

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New: Ex-McCaskill staffers launch PAC to block Hawley's electoral ambitions. The new group is called JOSH PAC, an acronym for Just Oust Seditious Hacks. https://t.co/mBe4cshHgK — PolitiTweet.org

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“We probably could have had a swearing-in and inauguration later after we got this virus behind us a little bit,” Tuberville told WKRG in Mobile. “Again, we’re talking about Washington, D.C.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Getting into the Capitol with DC’s new security measures is so difficult that congressional staff are now being “highly encouraged” to work from home until after Biden’s inauguration, per notice sent out from Sergeant-at-Arms — PolitiTweet.org

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Wow, Murkowski on impeachment: "Trump’s words incited violence, which led to the injury and deaths of Americans ... unlawful actions cannot go without consequence and the House has responded swiftly, and I believe, appropriately, with impeachment." Doesn't say how she'll vote — PolitiTweet.org

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@AndrewDesiderio This could lead to a quick trial: Dems not wanting to delay Biden, Rs not wanting to debate Trump for days on end. But the Senate is extremely unsettled - Majority changing - New admin/Cabinet - 2nd impeachment trial - Bunch of new members - Fallout from challenging election — PolitiTweet.org

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@AndrewDesiderio Only the same consent from the entire Senate will allow the chamber to create two tracks: One to confirm Biden’s Cabinet and pass agenda, and another for Trump’s impeachment trial. “We are working with Republicans to try to find a path forward,” says Schumer spokesman — PolitiTweet.org

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Our look at how Trump's impeachment trial is crashing directly into Biden's inauguration. Without agreement of all senators, the trial will start one hour after Biden is inaugurated https://t.co/frPiByPkG9 @AndrewDesiderio — PolitiTweet.org

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Unplugging for a few days. Thanks everyone for the well wishes to our Hill team at Politico. Calm under pressure. @Olivia_Beavers @MZanona @sarahnferris @marianne_levine @heatherscope @AndrewDesiderio @kyledcheney — PolitiTweet.org

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John, @marianne_levine and I spent some quality time together on Wednesday. He does a good job documenting it here — PolitiTweet.org

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@Olivianuzzi I am sure there is correlation with people that retweet themselves — PolitiTweet.org

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Corker does not regret his vote for Trump in 2016, which he says he made at the "last-second." He did not vote for Trump in 2020, did not vote for Biden either. He wrote in someone he thought represented who a president should be. He won't say who that is but he may in time — PolitiTweet.org

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To get a sense on where Rs stand on pushing Trump out of office right now, here's what an ex-senator who feuded with Trump says Corker: "We’re better off just letting him ease on out of here. Never to return again.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Manchin: “I give Bob credit for speaking out. Bob did speak out. And Bob tried to do the best he could from a very disadvantaged situation. Because Trump still had the support of the people.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Corker not running out a future run for executive office but has not considered running against Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee. GOP had been "a party of adults, and people who make tough decisions. Obviously, that hasn't been the case," he says — PolitiTweet.org

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Corker had warned of Cabinet keeping Trump from "chaos," the he might start World War III, that he didn't have the stability to lead. Capitol riots allowed “his true character [to be] revealed in a way that hopefully will diminish his impact on our country in the future, — PolitiTweet.org

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Former GOP Sen. Corker, : "My observations about his character and his conduct certainly have been validated, unfortunately, with people's lives being lost. And our country appearing to be run by a tin pot dictator to people around the world.” https://t.co/UsdlFCPfaQ — PolitiTweet.org

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The officer pauses the crowd as he gradually ascends staircase and leads them away from an obvious entrance right into the Senate and toward the Ohio Clock Corridor. That delay clearly made a difference. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JonathanTamari: PAs @SenToomey says Trump “committed impeachable offenses ...But I don’t know what is going to land on the Senate floor… — PolitiTweet.org