CNN's Capital Hill "reporter" gives

Low-down on how Senators voted today on Jan 6th Commission

54-35, Senate Republicans block effort to open debate on bill to create an outside commission to probe Jan. 6 attack. The vote marks their first successful legislative filibuster this Congress. House Dems are now considering opening a Dem-led probe into the attack

The six Rs who voted to advance bill:

Murkowksi

Collins

Cassidy

Sasse

Romney

Portman

Pat Toomey, who voted to convict Trump in February, skipped the vote. He told me for days he was “undecided”

Nine Republicans skipped vote:

⁃Blackburn

⁃Blunt

⁃Braun

⁃Burr

⁃Inhofe

⁃Rounds

⁃Risch

⁃Shelby

⁃Toomey

Two Dems skipped vote:

• Murray

• Sinema

Toomey had a family commitment, his office says, and would have voted to proceed to the bill. If he were here, combined with the two missing Dem votes, there would have been 57 votes in the affirmative — short of the 60 needed to break a filibuster

12:51 PM · May 28, 2021

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