Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) on Monday confronted Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) over of series of comments he made blaming Democrats for the fatal shooting of a Minnesota state lawmaker.

Shortly after the Senate began its Monday evening vote, Smith was seen walking into a conference room where Republicans were about to hold a meeting to discuss the text the Finance Committee had just unveiled for the party's massive tax bill.

She emerged a minute later talking to Lee in an adjacent hallway. The two spoke for a couple of minutes before the Minnesota........

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