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Keep calm. Carry on. SOTU 2/4 will change everything.
The Senate shall proceed to final arguments as provided in the impeachment rules, waiving the two person rule contained in Rule XXII of the Rules of Procedure and Practice in the Senate When Sitting on Impeachment Trials. Such arguments shall begin at 11:00am on Monday, February 3, 2020, and not exceed four hours, and be equally divided between the House and the President to be used as under the Rules of Impeachment. At the conclusion of the final arguments by the House and the President, the court of impeachment shall stand adjourned until 4:00pm on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, at which time the Senate, without intervening action or debate shall vote on the Articles of Impeachment.
Roll calls for S. Amd. 1295-1298 recorded here
In conversations on the sidelines of a DNC executive committee meeting and in telephone calls and texts in recent days, about a half-dozen members have discussed the possibility of a policy reversal to ensure that so-called superdelegates can vote on the first ballot at the party's national convention.
retro-grade clique NY Daily News
Russia is going to invade the mainland United States? Really? Schiff and Morrison represent two sides of the same hawkish coin, and that they found this point of agreement illustrates how impeachment has been fueled by a confluence of retrograde, Cold War-obsessed bipartisan consensus opinion.
The transcript of proceedings can read in whole (oral arguments and votes, "Trial") and in six parts (each record of senate rules voted). The voting record on measures name senators by roll call; and, for example, 7. TEXT OF AMENDMENTS, p S769, pertain to instructions delivered by McConnell from the floor to senators.
The CHIEF JUSTICE. The majority leader is recognized. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. Chief Justice, I ask unanimous consent that the Secretary be authorized to include statements of Senators explaining their votes, either given or submitted during the legislative sessions of the Senate on Monday, February 3; Tuesday, February 4; and Wednesday, February 5; along with the full record of the Senate's proceedings and the filings by the parties in a Senate document printed under the supervision of the Secretary of the Senate that will complete the documentation of Senate's handling of these impeachment proceedings. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. Chief Justice, I further ask unanimous consent that when the Senate resumes legislative session on Monday, February 3; Tuesday, February 4; and Wednesday, February 5; the Senate be in a period of morning business with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each for debate only. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The Congressional Record illustrates why these four amendments (which were not read aloud from the floor) earned the erstwhile "11 Amendments" title; the requisitions of material from the WH and National Security Council are novella-length--in the manner of Office of Special Counsel R. Mueller. The effect demanded from senators compels a pre-trial discovery process during the impeachment trial. Amd 1295, in particular, is no simple "witness" list but a compendium of unspecified documents, a fishing license, if you will. The other two proposed by Schumer appropriate Art. III authorities and instrumentality for senate purposes, incidentally, rendering Van Ho's contribution redundant.
Regardless of credibility vested in proposed witnesses testimony, one might reasonably be alarmed by this attempt at dismantling beloved doctrine, separation of powers among the branches of federal gov. Oh, the irony of urgency.
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