A number of Republican senators arrived a few minutes late to the start of the second day of the trial. One reporter counted 33 seats empty when the proceeding started at noon. The chamber didn’t fill up until about 12:20 p.m.
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Paul wasn’t seen on the floor for most of the first hour and a half of arguments though he was spotted in the cloakroom raising up his arms and appearing to speak loudly.
NBC reporter Garrett Haake, who was in the chamber, said the impeachment managers struggled with “the intractable nature of trying to get some of the folks in the room to actually engage with the material and be present and take this seriously.”
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Letter: Rep. Michelle Fischbach didn t violate oath of office
The following is a letter to the editor submitted to the newspaper by a reader. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the Echo Press. To submit a letter, send it to aedenloff@echopress.com or Echo Press, P.O. Box 549, Alexandria, MN 56308. 11:20 am, Feb. 3, 2021
To the editor:
An article in the Echo Press by Dana Ferguson, posted online Jan. 7, quoted the Minnesota DFL Chair as calling for representatives Hagedorn and Fischbach to be expelled from Congress for not abiding by their oaths to defend the U.S. Constitution because they objected to the 2020 Arizona and Pennsylvania Electoral College results. Additional letters to the editor have similarly and severely castigated Rep. Fischbach.