Three absences from the U.S. Senate — Chuck Schumer D-NY), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) — “threatened to upend Democrats’ plans for a productive July in the evenly divided Senate, and were the latest reminders that the party’s bare-minimum majority is exceedingly precarious,” the New York Times reports.
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