So Jim, the Senate, hard at work or hardly working?

In a sort of limbo state between.

Jim Newell covers Washington for Slate.

I would say they're working pretty hard to get to the starting point of when they begin to work.

In that they're supposed to be having this big bipartisan negotiation over another big coronavirus relief bill, but Republicans are having a little bit of

trouble figuring out what they want.

Jim's written about dysfunction in Congress for years, but what's happening now, for him,

it is another level.

Because Republicans have had months to put forward their vision for what this relief package should look like.

Instead, they're still working on their vision board.

You know, Chuck Schumer in his daily floor speech was going and saying,

Republicans are in complete disarray.

They have no idea what they're doing.

It's a madhouse over there. They're so divided.

The country is crying out for relief. This was last week on the Senate floor.

The needless delays, the partisan politics, the infighting between the president and Senate and

House Republicans has got to stop.

And I wasn't sure I quite bought that on Monday when I was expecting Republicans to just have

their offer ready by Wednesday.

But as each day went on and Mitch McCall would at the end of the day have to say,

oh, this is going to need a couple more days.

I think he was pretty much right.

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