Barr still hasn't told the House Judiciary Committee if he'll show up tomorrow

Attorney General William Barr spent Wednesday in the Senate, but he was still the House's biggest conversation of the day.

On Wednesday, Barr and the Senate Judiciary Committee exchanged remarkably calm words about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report. But that wasn't the case in the House Judiciary Committee, where members couldn't even agree on whether they could vote to add an extra hour of questioning to their presumed hearing with Barr on Thursday. As Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) expressionlessly called for a vote on one of several extended questioning motions, Republicans shouted over him in attempts to "amend," "table," "adjourn," and take just about every other bureaucratic action out there.

Of course, committee members may have just been wasting their voices the whole time. As Wednesday dragged on, Barr still hadn't confirmed if he would even show up for the House's hearing on Thursday. Reports indicated earlier that Barr had told Democrats he'd boycott a scheduled House testimony because he didn't like that both parties' committee counsels would get an additional 30 minutes to question him.

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Meanwhile over in House Intelligence territory, committee chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that Democrats "haven't ruled out impeachment of the president or now of the attorney general." Kathryn Krawczyk