oops..found my own answer from the comments:
“The new Congressional term will begin on January 3rd, at which point all the preceeding bills are dead and have to be reintroduced from scratch. The House would then be in control of the Democrats, who would not vote for funding for the wall. So for this “two-speech rule” scheme to work, the Senate would have to complete debate and vote on the wall-funding prior to January 3rd. That’s only 6 and a fraction days, or at most about 160 hours even if the Senate worked through New Years Day and remained in sesson around the clock. Supposing that the Democrats united to defeat this tactic, it would require about 40 Democrats to each speak for 4 hours (or just 2 hours per speech) to fill up that time. That’s certainly doable, especially since some Senators could fill up 5 or 6 hours per speech to releave the pressure on others. The bottom line is that it is too late for this tactic to succeed before the new Congress is sworn in”
https://twitter.com/LisaMei62/status/1078821935436439553
Lisa Mei Crowley @LisaMei62
Memo fm Gowdy & Goodlatte to McConnell, Whitaker, & Horowitz summarizing their DoJ/FBI investigations & expressing concern over disparate treatment btwn Clinton email investigation & Trump-Russia investigation.
https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Joint-Investigation-Letter-3.pdf
Some reminders re: Gowdy, Goodlatte, Sessions, Huber, & Horowitz in light of today's memo to McConnell, Whitaker, & Horowitz (see previous tweet, this thread). I believe this is where this particular House investigation ends & the @senjudiciary takes over.
