Article snippet: Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) has won round one of the Senate impeachment fight, announcing Tuesday that he has the votes to adopt rules that do not require additional witnesses and key documents despite the strong objections of Democrats. McConnell did not lose support from a single member of his conference in the standoff with Senate Minority Leader MORE at the trial’s outset. Now the pressure is on Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate, even though there isn’t a bipartisan deal on how to proceed. “We have the votes,” McConnell told reporters triumphantly after meeting with Republican colleagues over lunch. The GOP leader spent part of the holiday recess reaching out to colleagues to talk to them about the upcoming impeachment trial, according to GOP senators. His strategy was to build a unified Republican front to withstand Democratic demands that the organizing resolution for Trump’s trial guarantee that Bolton and three other witnesses — acting White House chief of staff MORE, White House adviser Robert Blair and senior Office of Management and Budget official Michael Duffey — testify. His three toughest challenges lay with moderate Sens. MORE (R-Utah), who have criticized Trump’s conduct in recent months to varying degrees. All three moderates said Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning that it would be appropriate to pass an organizing resolution along the lines of what the Senate adopted 100-0 at the start of former... Link to the full article to read more