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9.09pm GMT

In the absence of progress there is movement, literal movement, from the floor of the Senate to the Majority Leader’s office.

Schumer just said on the floor that he had been summoned to McConnell’s office. https://t.co/Z2KcP6SABx

8.58pm GMT

Summing up the day’s events:

We’re right where we started when we got here today.” Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas

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Source: theguardian