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MCCONNELL: “Madam President, we have set a very unfortunate precedent here. This means that the Senate can ignore, in effect, the House’s impeachment. It doesn’t make any difference whether our friends on the other side thought he should have been impeached or not. He was. And by doing what we just did, we have in effect ignored the directions of the House, which were to have a trial. No evidence, no procedure. This is a day that’s not a proud day in the history of the Senate. (applause)”