Senate tables Schumer’s motion for a vote on Epstein files

“Honestly, it’s quite rare that the amendment tree hasn’t been filled” in past years, said Jeremy Dalrymple, a former counsel for Republicans on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. 

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who was majority leader from 2015 until 2021, “would never have done this when he was majority leader,” said Dalrymple, now associate director of governance at the R Street Institute think tank.

McConnell “was an expert on parliamentary procedure, and he always filled the tree, and we’ve seen with Sen. Thune that hasn’t been the case,” Dalrymple said.