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Reporter's Notebook: Inside the Senate showdown over Trump's push to scrap August recess

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The proof of citizenship voting bill has failed twice and the majority leader says votes still aren't there. The words "schedule" and "Congress" don't always mesh. "I think there's nothing more important than they pass the SAVE America Act," Trump said. Thune said, "I don't think having a Congress sitting around here for the month of August..." Thune has rebuffed the President's demands to stay in session. "Now if he can change the facts and start moving some of those senators who are noes into yesses." "We have in the past suggested to he and his team to come up here and visit with some of my Republican colleagues," Thune said. Sen. John Kennedy said, "I'm just saying people change their mind sometimes." Sen. James Lankford said, "The worst case scenario is for us to stay all the way through and then we lose the Senate." Sen. Susan Collins said, "I don't miss votes."