By Meg Wagner, Mike Hayes and Veronica Rocha, CNN
The Senate voted along party lines to table Sen. Chuck Schumer's second amendment to Mitch McConnell's resolution.
The vote was 53 Republicans in favor and 47 Democrats against tabling the amendment.
Schumer is now introducing a third amendment to subpoena relevant documents from the Office of Management and Budget.
From CNN's Michael Warren
By 5:30 p.m. ET, the length of the first day was wearing on the senators in the chamber. There were lots of yawns and sleepy looks.
Sen. Martha McSally had a blanket over her lap. Sen. Dan Sullivan let loose a big yawn. At one point, both Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Sen. Jim Risch appeared to have their eyes closed, but Gillibrand opened them abruptly and sat up straight in her chair.
Others looked like bored students in a particularly long lecture. Sen. Tom Cotton absent-mindedly clicked his retractable pen for about a minute, before Sen. Joni Ernst turned to look at him and he stopped. Sen. Amy Klobuchar was chewing a piece of gum. Sen. Tim Scott scribbled on a note card and handed it to Sen. Ben Sasse, who read it, leaned into Scott’s ear, and began whispering. Scott silently laughed at whatever Sasse told him.
One of the attorneys for the House Democratic managers, sitting at the table across from the managers, was Daniel Goldman, who was the lead counsel for the House Intelligence Committee during its impeachment hearings.
House Manager Rep. Val Demings, during her arguments, prompted for a video of Goldman’s questioning of former acting ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor to be played. When Goldman’s voice boomed out of the speakers at the start of the video, the present Goldman sat up with a bit of a start.
The House impeachment managers and Trump's legal team just finished debating a second amendment to the proposed trial rules. The amendment — introduced by Sen. Chuck Schumer — would allow for the subpoena of State Department documents.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell asked to table the amendment. They're voting on that now.
From CNN's Ali Zaslav
Sen. Mike Braun, a Republican from Indiana, told reporters that many Republicans didn’t read through the resolution closely last night — so at the GOP lunch today there was a lot of discussion surrounding the amount of time for opening arguments and the handling of evidence already laid out from the House.
“I think that most of us didn't really have time to really look at the resolution closely and when we did, we thought that submitting evidence from House proceedings would be a good thing," he said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made some key last minute changes to the Senate trial organizing resolution today, including that evidence from the House would be submitted into the trial record unless there’s a vote to oppose, and time for opening arguments would be extended from two days to three.
In addition to Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who voiced support for witnesses, Braun felt there was “pretty broad agreement” on the idea that “when it came to any information that any evidence has already been heard in the House that just gets accepted into the record.”
Braun also said that while originally he thought it would be a good idea to tough it out and sit through opening arguments in a compressed timeline – by 5:30 p.m. today he said: “I don’t think I’d be as apt to say I could sit through 12 to 14 hours or whatever that might be.”
He added that he felt that way, in particular, because the subject matter “we’ve all heard” and it feels like it’s going “slowly” at this point.
From CNN's Betsy Klein
White House counsel Pat Cipollone briefly spoke on the Senate Floor following House manager Val Demings, responding to Adam Schiff’s assertion that he’d call former White House national security adviser John Bolton to testify in the Senate.
He said that issuing a subpoena for Bolton is “not right” since the House forwent their opportunity to call him to testify during their trial.
Cipollone referenced a letter from Bolton and Charles Kupperman’s lawyer dated Nov. 8 regarding subpoenas for Bolton and Kupperman’s testimony.
The House, Cipollone said, “never subpoenaed Ambassador Bolton, … and they withdrew the subpoena for Charles Kupperman. And they ask you to issue a subpoena for John Bolton. It’s not right,” he said
He yielded the remainder of his time to the President’s outside counsel, Jay Sekulow.
From CNN's Ali Zaslav
Sen. Mazie Hirono, a Democrat from Hawaii, blasted the President's legal team and their arguments during the break,
Referring to Trump's defense team, she told reporters:
"All this talk about, ‘Oh, they're asking the Senate to do the Houses’ job.’ That's just BS. It makes my head spin."
Asked how she’s spending her time during the trial so far, Hirono replied that she’s listening very carefully and taking notes.
We're almost five hours into the first earnest day of the Senate impeachment trial. House impeachment managers, who are prosecuting the case against Trump's case, and the President's defense team have been debating the proposed rules for the trial.
If you need to catch up on all the faces on the Senate floor, here's your annotated run down:
From CNN's Jeremy Herb
Many senators are taking notes at their desks while Democratic House manager Val Demings is speaking.
It's unclear if they’re taking trial notes or writing on an unrelated topic.
While the sergeant at arms announces at the start of each day that senators face the “pain of imprisonment” for talking during the trial, senators are managing to sneak quick comments in with a hand over their mouths as they lean in to their neighbors.
From CNN's Marshall Cohen
Florida Rep. Val Demings, one of the Democratic House managers, is now highlighting new information that came to light last week from Lev Parnas, the Soviet-born businessman who worked with Rudy Giuliani on the Ukraine pressure campaign.
Arguing that the Senate should subpoena the State Department, Demings pointed to a February 2019 text message where Giuliani told Republican lawyer Victoria Toensing that he was going to talk to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about removing the US ambassador to Ukraine. (Trump later removed the diplomat, Marie Yovanovitch, from her post, amid a flurry of public allegations from Giuliani and his allies in conservative media, who falsely accused Yovanovitch of being an anti-Trump partisan.)
House investigators only got those text messages last week, after Parnas complied with a months-old subpoena. Parnas was indicted in October on campaign finance charges, and recently secured approval from a judge to share the documents.
Demings also aired a clip of Parnas’ interview with MSNBC where he talked about the pressure campaign. Parnas also sat down for a wide-ranging interview with CNN, and said he tried to intimidate Ukrainian officials at the direction of Giuliani and Trump.