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As their colleagues went on the airwaves or rushed to the Senate floor to noisily trade blame over a government shutdown, about two dozen centrist senators from both parties crammed for hours into the Capitol Hill office of Senator Susan Collins, Republican of ME, to try to chart a civil way out of what Senator Mitch McConnell had called a "box canyon".
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of ME corralled her colleagues into a polite discussion to fund the U.S. government Monday by forcing them to use a "talking stick".
Politico reported that Republican Sen.
"I needed order", Collins told the New York Times.
During one meeting, however, Politico reported that Sen. Lamar Alexander, of Tennessee, tried to toss the stick to Democratic Sen.
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Alexander "forcefully delivered" the stick across the room, but it missed Warner and caused damage to a shelf in Collins' office.
"There were no injuries, there were a couple close calls but everything worked out fine", a Republican senator told CNN, adding that everyone in attendance joked about the incident.
Senators meeting to end the shutdown of the United States government were forced to take turns with a "talking stick" in an attempt to prevent tensions from boiling over.
Collins would then take the stick from one senator and give it to the next who wanted to speak.
Update: This post has been updated with comment from Alexander's aide.
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