While senators appear to be less eager as the House members to make objections, a source familiar with the matter noted that efforts like this can snowball in the House and ultimately put pressure on senators.
The GOP lawmakers did not discuss how long they wanted to draw out the objection process, but my source tells me that the senators weren’t excited about debating past midnight -- though 3USC16 allows for recesses to occur so they think that could solve this issue for them.
Lastly, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), was NOT on the phone call, with my source describing him as a “wild card” in this process.
So even the group of R's who are planning to object don't know what Hawley is going to do.
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Capitol police are investigating a Suspicious Package in the 300 Block of First Street SE.
"Staff and other personnel are directed to AVOID THIS AREA until further notice."
Update from Capitol Police: "If you are in the Cannon Building, take visitors, escape hoods, and Go Kits and report to the South tunnel connecting to the Longworth."
1: Attacks Vindman as fitting profile of bureaucrats who "sabotage" Trump's agenda, says those who disagree w/ POTUS can resign
2: Calls impeachment inquiry "concerted" effort to "sabotage" Trump admin
3: Mentions Strzok/Page texts/FISA
5: Trump said during meeting that Ukrainians are “all corrupt,” but that RJ says he pushed back by asking POTUS to keep his viewpoint “private” until he meets w/ Zelensky
6: Doesnt remember Trump telling officials to work w/ Giuliani, as Sondland testified
7: Sondland told RJ aid was contingent on Ukraine demonstrating “its serious intention to fight corruption and possibly determine what involvement operatives in Ukraine might have had during” 2016 election — an “arrangement” he “winced” at
BREAKING: A lawyer for Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, told the House Judic Chair on Thursday that his client will “invoke his constitutional rights not to testify,” defying a GOP subpoena seeking to compel him to give closed-door deposition.
The lawyers accused the panels' Republicans of seeking to “ruin the reputations of some of the government’s most dedicated and experienced civil servants,” in an attempt to “weaken the independence of this Justice Department" -- naming Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele
“The obvious...goal of this Committee is to discredit and otherwise damage witnesses to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, all as part of an effort to protect a President who has sought to placate and curry favor with a hostile foreign power..." they wrote