Senate chaos: Johnson delays exit as votes pushed to Friday – By Jordain Carney (The Hill) / May 27 2021
Senate hopes of votes on a China competitiveness bill and legislation to form a commission to probe the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol were dashed Thursday night after Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and other conservatives raised objections to the China bill, delaying the Senate’s planned exit for the Memorial Day recess.
Instead of completing its work late Thursday or early Friday, the Senate will now be back in session at 9 a.m. after adjourning at 3 a.m. to try to move forward again.
Johnson, backed by a group of fellow conservative senators, threw the China bill back limbo as he refused to let it move forward over frustration that he didn’t get some of his amendments in the package.
“Everybody else seems to have gotten something in this manager’s package,” he said, adding that reporters should expect to be in the Capitol for a “long time.”
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