senate on the issue likely to fail anyway before monday s self-imposed mlk deadline has been delayed because of democratic a senator s positive test for covid. he says to isolate and democrats without a majority, they would meet on the senate floor in order to potentially pull off the votes. it puts the president and the party in an awkward position to have to wait and wait to possibly fail. are they going to do the votes next week on the one-year anniversary of the president putting a spotlight on their inability to get this done? i have my doubts. the president s efforts and campaign promises to defeat the virus have run into trouble after the supreme court ruled the testing mandates for big companies was unconstitutional. that was a separate ruling for hospitals who take wherever