Those aren’t key changes. They are absolutely minor. The second in particular is likely a good thing. Admitting automatically all the evidence introduced in the House means that it doesn’t have to be introduced separately into the Senate via testimony. It also permits GOP Senators to state that they had access to the exact same evidence as the House.
The Senate will also automatically admit evidence from the House investigation into Trump last fall.
Including ICIG Atkinson’s testimony (which has not been released)?
Perhaps of most importance it gives the Democrats something to claim as a win.
Give a little, gain a lot
-—”Those aren’t key changes. They are absolutely minor. The second in particular is likely a good thing. Admitting automatically all the evidence introduced in the House means that it doesn’t have to be introduced separately into the Senate via testimony. It also permits GOP Senators to state that they had access to the exact same evidence as the House.”-—
Bingo. Of course it gets spun as a Dem win of some sort. really dumb.
“The Senate will also automatically admit evidence from the House investigation into Trump last fall.”
What evidence would that be? I’m just sayin’
Those aren’t key changes. They are absolutely minor. The second in particular is likely a good thing. Admitting automatically all the evidence introduced in the House means that it doesn’t have to be introduced separately into the Senate via testimony. It also permits GOP Senators to state that they had access to the exact same evidence as the House.
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You are absolutely correct!
“Admitting automatically all the evidence introduced in the House means that it doesn’t have to be introduced separately into the Senate via testimony. It also permits GOP Senators to state that they had access to the exact same evidence as the House.”
I wonder if the “secret” testimony comes before the Senate also?
Generally, I agree with you. They don’t need a repeat of all the live testimony before the House.
Fake News! Their take not reality.
I assumed that the senate would have voted to accept all the evidence anyway; and this just put that vote into the rules, which were then voted on.
And the 3-day/2-day thing was genius, because the 2-day rule would have made it possible for the senators running for president to get done before the Iowa caucus. Now they can’t, and the republicans can blame the democrats for that.