Senate Chamber Empties as Clerks Read Relief Bill

“Senators vanished from the U.S. Senate chamber on Thursday as clerks begin reading the upper house’s 628-page coronavirus relief bill, with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who objected to waiving its reading as a way to delay the process, chatting and looking at his phone during parts of the reading,” Forbes reports.

The Hill: Ron Johnson grinds Senate to halt, irritating many.