One in-person lunch, two confirmation hearings, dozens of senators in face masks and no floor votes. The scene of the Senate's first full day back in session at the US Capitol served as a reminder of the grasp that coronavirus has on the country.
That marked the Senate's first full day back in session at the US Capitol.The halls, typically buzzing on a Tuesday, were still. The Ohio clock, the scene of post-lunch press conferences, ticked by without a staffer in its vicinity. In order to comply with social distancing guidelines, Republicans dined in a room so large it is typically reserved for high-profile Senate hearings. Democrats held no lunch at all, instead replacing it with a conference call.
"Congress slow to oversee US response to crisis amid partisan battlesAt the Capitol building where metal detectors and law enforcement have sought to stamp out outside threats, the only recourse now against coronavirus is dozens of boxes of Purell on a cart in the Senate basement, hand sanitizing dispensers near the elevators, boxes of masks on tables near the elevators and yellow sticker dots on the floor of a popular stakeout location thanking members of the press in advance for...
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