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The House voted 232-197 to charge Donald Trump with "incitement of insurrection" in connection with the assault on the U.S. Capitol.

If former President Donald Trump is convicted in the Senate impeachment trial, the Senate could vote to prohibit Trump from holding a public office in the future.

Most experts believe that $1,400 stimulus checks are likely to pass, but Americans may have to wait past March to actually receive the checks due to disagreements in Congress.

Donald Trump is the only president in U.S. history to be impeached twice, but some things will change will this Senate trial.

GOP senators Richard Burr of North Carolina and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania have also said they won't run again in 2022.

"It really depends on what the justification is," GOP Senator Bill Cassidy said of President Joe Biden's COVID-19 relief package.

Jason Miller said there were no active plans, but left open the prospect a new party on the right.

The Republican former governor said that GOP lawmakers want to "make political points with those people who the president and others lied to."

Stanford Professor David Kennedy said Hawley gave "credence to the patent falsehood that the election was 'rigged.'"

"I think it's pretty clear that over the last year or so there has been an effort to corrupt the election of the United States," the Republican senator said.

"Healing and unity will only come if there is truth and accountability," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday, "and that is what this trial will provide."

"The people want action, not excuses," the Vermont senator said.

The New York representative said the Republicans should be chucked out of the Senate if they failed to resign.

Lawyer, dentist and conspiracy theorist Orly Taitz claims that the conviction of former President Donald Trump in a second impeachment trial would deprive her and others of a "Constitutional First Amendment right for the political speech, namely, to vote for Donald Trump in future elections."

"I do believe very strongly that we cannot just accept what happened here," the Democratic congressman told CNN.

Both political parties have made changes to the filibuster in the past, but now some Democrats want it gone completely.

Even the strongest political "dream team" can't right this ship alone. We all have a role to play.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that the new president's "clear preference" is to work with Republicans to pass further relief, but added that Democrats are "not going to take any tools off the table."

Vice President Kamala Harris swore in three new Democratic Senators on Wednesday, giving her party slight control over the congressional upper chamber.

Avril Haines, who previously served in the Obama administration, became the first woman to serve as Director of National Intelligence after being confirmed in the Senate by a 84-10 vote on Wednesday.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) spoke against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) "giving some legitimacy to this impeachment process that I think is wrong" on Wednesday.

The addition of Ossoff and Warnock will give the Senate a 50-50 split, but Democrats will make up the majority as Harris will be responsible for casting any tie-breaking votes.

The outgoing Senate majority leader pointed out that Kamala Harris is the "very first female Vice President of the United States."

The path to near irrelevance has been a long one, but ever since the Democrats lost control of the House in 2010, it has been accelerating.

Republicans have little, if anything, in common with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when it comes to policies, but they've taken notice of her political prowess.

The vice president-elect said she hoped "common ground" would be found in the Senate to do the work of the American people.

"Rudy Giuliani charted a very bad course for the president in the morning papers," the Republican strategist said during a Fox News appearance.

The Republican Trump ally warned GOP colleagues that convicting Trump would "destroy" their political party.

Alex Padilla is slated to become the first Latino senator from California.

The former Texas congressman accused Cruz of sedition and called for his "expulsion" from the Senate, following the deadly Capitol riot.