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FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo, Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., speaks during an executive session of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House vote to impeach President Donald Trump shifts the action to the Senate, where Minnesota Democrats Amy Klobuchar and Smith have pledged to sit in judgment impartially on the charges against the president. Smith's likely opponent in the 2020 election, Republican former congressman Jason Lewis,

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