The Senate voted late Tuesday to tell Sen. Elizabeth Warren to sit down — and shut up. The Republican-controlled chamber voted 49-43 to uphold a ruling that the Massachusetts Democrat violated Senate rules that prohibit impugning another senator as she delivered a lengthy speech against the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as the nation’s attorney general. And rather than quieting Warren, the episode sparked by a dispute over arcane Senate rules only served to elevate her cause.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/elizabeth-warren-sessions-silence-234779
