Sen Murkowski just spoke to reporters about her frustration that her GOP colleagues will block a January 6th Commish from being formed.

"It's important that there be a focus on the facts, and on the truth, and that may be unsettling, but we need to understand that," she said.
Standing just steps from Ofc Goodman, who directed rioters away from Senators being evacuated on Jan 6, Murkowski said "we just can't pretend that nothing bad happened, or that people just got too excitable. Something bad happened. And it's important to lay that out."
Murkowski on why she wants a Jan 6 Commission: "I think there's more to be learned. I want to know more. And I want to know and I don't want to know. I don't want to know, but I need to know."
Murkowksi on McConnell rejecting Jan 6 commission:

"To be making a decision for the short-term political gain at the expense of understanding and acknowledging what was in front of us on January 6th, I think we need to look at that critically. Is that really what this is about?"
"Is everything is just one election cycle after another?" Murkowski asks about the political calculation republicans are making in rejecting the Jan 6 Commission,

"I kind of want that to endure beyond just one election cycle," she said.
MURKOWSKI:"Is it going to reveal anything more that we would have gotten otherwise? I don't know & I guess now we'll never know. Isn't that part of the problem that we'll never know?"

"We'll keep wondering, it'll never be resolved it will always be hanging out there," she said.

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28 May
A motion to move forward on a House-passed bill to establish a Jan 6th Commission has failed to get the 60 votes needed to pass, 54-35.

It was blocked by Republicans, led by Sen McConnell, who are worried the findings of the commission will be used to hurt them politically.
6 GOP Senators voted in support of the motion:
Cassidy*
Collins*
Murkowski*
Portman
Romney*
Sasse*

*Voted to convict President Trump of inciting the insurrection at the Capitol.
11 Senators who missed this Jan 6 Commission procedural vote:
Blackburn
Blunt
Braun
Burr
Inhofe
Murray
Risch
Rounds
Shelby
Sinema
Toomey
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28 May
CASSIDY votes YES on procedural motion to move forward with resolution to establish a Jan 6th Commission.
SASSE votes YES on procedural motion to move forward with resolution to establish a Jan 6th Commission.
PORTMAN votes YES on procedural motion to move forward with resolution to establish a Jan 6th Commission.
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Senate votes 51-50 to proceed to the COVID relief bill, with VP Harris breaking the tie.

Sen Johnson (R-WI) then objected to dispensing with the reading of the bill, so the clerk has begun reading all 628 pages.
The clerks have been reading the text of the COVID relief bill for 40 minutes, and they are on page 24 of 628.
And Sen @RonJohnsonWI is the only Senator sitting in the chamber (other than @ReverendWarnock who is presiding) as the clerk reads every word of the 628-page COVID relief bill, a reading he requested.
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Meanwhile, @RandPaul is hanging out of the Senate floor (maskless) so that he can block the Senate from adjourning for the night & establishing a pro forma schedule. He's trying to make it harder for the Senate to (eventually) override a veto of the NDAA.

Everyone else is gone.
@RandPaul It's 1:11am, Rand is still there trying to make it harder for the Senate to get to a veto override vote (if one is needed).

He has said in the past that he'd like to see the NDAA expire and not be renewed (this would be the 60th year in a row it has passed).

I'm going to bed.
Here’s what was decided on a potential NDAA override in the Senate:

IF Trump vetoes the bill, & IF the House votes to override on Dec 28th, the Senate will come back on Dec 29th to start the process to do the same.

That process can take days, so goal = finish before noon Jan 3.
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Sen Cotton on #DCStatehood: Dems "want two new democratic senators in perpetuity. The Democrats are angry at the American people for refusing to give them total control of the govt for going on a decade now, so they want to give the swamp as many senators as your state has."
COTTON: "They want to make Washington a state to rig the rules of our democracy and try to give the democratic party permanent power. But in doing so, the Democrats are committing an act of historical vandalism as grotesque as those committed by jacobin mobs roaming our streets."
COTTON: "Washington has just over 700,000 residents, more than Wyoming and Vermont, and about as many as Alaska. Doesn't this qualify Washington as a state? Well, if it did, we'd need a lot more states because Washington is just the 20th largest city in the country."
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Senate Intel Committee Chairman @SenatorBurr: "Every elected official in the Ukraine was for Hillary Clinton. Is that very different than the Russians being for Donald Trump?"
@SenatorBurr Sen BURR: "You considered Russia meddling with just the preference they had before you knew the rest of it. Apply the same standard to Ukraine. The President can say that they meddled because they had a preference, the elected officials, that's not the current people."
@SenatorBurr Q: Is there any evidence that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election?
BURR: I don’t think there’s any question that elected officials in Ukraine had a favorite in the election.
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