Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said he has enough votes to set impeachment-trial rules that don’t guarantee new witnesses would be called rebuffing demands from Democrats amid mounting signs that a deadlock over the process was beginning to loosen. Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, told reporters
he modeled his plan on the procedures used during the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999 the Senate’s only modern precedent.
“All we are doing here is saying we are going to get started in exactly the same way 100 senators agreed to 20 years ago What was good enough for President Clinton is good enough for President Trump.”he said
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