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The Senate will be in order. The clerk will continue reading.

Senate staff might want to head straight for the energy drinks this morning after Republican Ron Johnson forced the chamber's clerk to read every single word of the COVID relief bill out loud.

Yep, all 628 pages, essentially the length of the longest Harry Potter book.

What Dem leaders thought would take maybe four or five hours dragged on for almost 11 hours, finally wrapping up just after 2 a.m.

The Senate has adjourned until 9 a.m. this morning. Unsurprisingly, the Senate emptied out

within a few minutes of Johnson's request, with Johnson sticking around to prevent Dems

from expediting the process. This is filibuster 101, people. At least the entire Senate should be super

familiar with the package as it moves on to amendment votes today. The next step, Republicans can use

up to 20 hours of debate time and then force unlimited amendment votes. That's right, we're in for

another voterrama kicking off before noon today.

And Republicans are vowing to make it as painful as possible for Dems who just want to get it passed quickly.

Johnson says he's coming up with a shift schedule to keep his GOP colleagues from tiring out.

Chuck Schumer's promise the chamber will stay in session this week until the bill is passed,

and he dismissed Johnson's move to read the bill as a delay tactic that will, quote,

accomplish little more than a few sore throats for the Senate clerks.

Democrats will have to stick together today to make sure their carefully negotiated bill is not upset by GOP amendments. If you remember the last amendment series, moderate Dems infuriated

progressives by approving an amendment barring undocumented immigrants from getting stimulus checks.

So House Dems are watching this voterama super closely. Bernie Sanders is also planning to offer

a $15 minimum wage amendment, despite the Senate parliamentarian ruling that

including that provision would violate Senate rules. And while that amendment's expected to fail,

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