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Delay in power-sharing pact leaves Senate in limbo
“It’s kind of goofy at the moment,” says the No. 2 Senate Republican.
As Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell negotiate a power sharing agreement for a 50-50 Senate, committee assignments are still up in the air. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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Democrats are in control of the Senate. But Sen. Ron Johnson is still leading the Homeland Security Committee, even though he s term-limited and in the minority.
It s the latest complication of the 50-50 Senate split.
“I’m still chairman,” the Wisconsin Republican said this week. “They haven’t hung my picture in the cloakroom yet so that’s a sign I guess.”
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Other senators are expressing hope that the Senate will become more functional under President Biden, who served 36 years in the upper chamber before becoming Barack Obama
“Everything is possible. You know, we have, we have administrations come and go, sometimes every four years, sometimes every eight years, and we can work with Democratic administrations and vice versa,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski
McConnell regularly shut Schumer out of planning the Senate agenda in recent years. Most notably, he declined to negotiate a bipartisan organizing resolution for former President Trump
For months last year, McConnell refused to meet with Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi
House Poised to Send Trump Impeachment Article to Senate, Durbin Says
The House of Representatives will likely send the article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate by the end of the week, a top Senate Democrat said on Jan. 21.
“They will be sending it over to us in a day or two, I imagine. We have to decide how to work it into a very busy calendar. But it is a priority,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said during a virtual appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters on Jan. 21 that it’s up to Pelosi as to when the article will be transmitted.