End of impeachment trial to leave deep scars in Senate | TheHill

Whether they know better, whether they’re scared to death, whether they don’t care, whether they’re all going to retire with their pensions, I don’t know,” said Brown.And while the trial is nearly over, both parties are vowing to fight on.Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron JohnsonRonald (Ron) Harold JohnsonMurkowski asks why should Bolton not testify before Senate Live coverage: Senators enter second day of questions in impeachment trial Overnight Energy: Environment takes center stage in House infrastructure plan | Iowans push 2020 candidates on climate | Sanders offers bill on 'forever chemicals' MORE (R-Wis.) said his committee will continue to investigate Ukraine’s possible intervention in the 2016 campaign, an allegation that Democrats have panned as Russian propaganda, as well as the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign in 2016.Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey GrahamLindsey Olin GrahamHuawei threatens the US-UK 'special relationship' Trump poised to make case for reelection in State of the Union Senate drama surrounding Trump trial starts to fizzle MORE (R-S.C.), meanwhile, has called for an investigation of Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine.House Democrats, who have subpoena power, plan to continue their investigations of Trump and his administration.Senators remarked on the rift between McConnell and Schumer during the trial and how little talk there was between Republicans and Democrats in general.With the center aisle creating a gulf between the two parties, Senate Democrats spent much of the trial scanning the faces of their GOP colleagues in hopes of gleaning some hints from their expressions and body language.McConnell and Schumer weren’t spotted talking together on the Senate floor until Friday afternoon, after the Democratic leader threatened to make the chamber debate a second organizing resolution into the wee hours of the night by forcing multiple motions to close the Senate doors for deliberations.“I think they need to go out for dinner or something,” said one Republican senator, who was left shaking his head over the lack of collegiality between McConnell and Schumer.Senators who sat as jurors in the 1999 Clinton trial said the relations between then-Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and then-Democratic Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) were much better.“There was much more openness at that time and more open conversation,” said Senate Minority Whip Dick DurbinRichard (Dick) Joseph DurbinTrump bashes 'Medicare for All' in swipe at Sanders Iowa meltdown threatens future of state's caucuses Illinois senators meet with Amtrak CEO over ,000 price tag for wheelchair users MORE (D-Ill.).Senators gathered privately in the Old Senate Chamber before the Clinton trial and emerged with a bipartisan deal that passed 100-0, establishing the rules for the proceedings.Democrats complain that McConnell refused to negotiate with Schumer on the organizing resolution for the trial and didn’t reveal what the rules would be until the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, giving them almost no heads-up about what to expect.When the resolution was released, Democrats discovered to their anger that the House impeachment managers would have to cram 24 hours’ worth of arguments into two days, forcing them to speak late into the night.McConnell later relented, to allow the House managers and Trump’s lawyers three days each after getting pushback from moderate Republicans.Democrats were also upset that Republicans broke with precedent by not allowing any witnesses to testify, something that had been allowed in the other two Senate impeachment trials.