Congress has only been back in Washington for two days, but Republican and Democratic senators and aides alike are losing patience for the impeachment purgatory that has descended over the Capitol
Senators from both parties are signaling they aren't willing to wait forever to start a Senate trial, a potentially unwelcome sign for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, who have so far been able to keep their respective parties united.A handful of Senate Democrats have made clear they are ready for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to move on from her withholding of the two articles of impeachment of President Donald Trump.
McConnell -- for his part -- has extracted almost perfect unity over the conference. He vowed to repeat an impeachment trial process that mirrored one of former Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1999, pleasing moderates who would have proposed that strategy on their own. And he convinced Trump and conservatives in his ranks to agree to a more limited trial, or at the very least, begin the process without an explicit agreement on which witnesses to call or which documents would be turned over.
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