.@ChrisCoons and @JeffFlake are on the Senate floor, about to ask for unanimous consent to adopt this non-binding resolution expressing support for the Russia investigation, agreement with the ICA, and more: coons.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… 
@ChrisCoons @JeffFlake Flake is going all in on Trump, referencing Orwell’s 1984 and saying what happened in Helsinki was “truly an Orwellian moment."
@ChrisCoons @JeffFlake Looks like Sen. John Cornyn, the number-two Senate Republican, is going to kill this:
@ChrisCoons @JeffFlake Cornyn says they should consider sanctions and go through the committees to take action against Russia. (Not sure why they couldn’t do both?)
@ChrisCoons @JeffFlake He says they could make mistakes by “rushing” with resolutions like this.
@ChrisCoons @JeffFlake "All I'm asking for is a little bit of caution here,” Cornyn says.
@ChrisCoons @JeffFlake Cornyn objects.
@ChrisCoons @JeffFlake Flake calls the objection “regrettable.”
"We will bring it back,” he says.
"It is” a symbolic vote, he says, but symbols are important, Flake says.
"We will bring it back,” he says.
"It is” a symbolic vote, he says, but symbols are important, Flake says.
Cornyn’s objection didn’t make a ton of sense to me. First, he said it was just a symbolic action without any bite. Then, he said it was rushed and might interfere with a provision in the NDAA related to India. If it’s just symbolic, why does the second reason matter?
