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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts) Wed Jan 22, 2020, 04:42 PM Jan 2020

Inside the chamber: Repug senators breaking rules & not being called into account for it

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Jon Ward ✔ @jonward11

As Schiff hits 2-hour mark, more than a dozen GOP senators have left Senate chamber & are in cloakroom. All Dems, I believe, remain in the chamber. Sen. Bennet gestures w his hand as if to say, what's with that? Rules require senators to be at their desks for entirety of trial.

Jon Ward ✔ @jonward11

Gillibrand was the one Dem I saw standing in the back, as a number of Republicans were doing. But then Republicans started leaving. I'm not in chamber now so I don't know how long they were out.

3:27 PM - Jan 22, 2020

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