The US Senate quickly dismissed the impeachment case against Alejandro Mayorkas, the US Secretary of Homeland Security.

The House impeached him over his handling of the US Mexican border security.

It was a largely party line vote and a chamber the Republicans control by a narrow margin.

As debate started today in the Senate, Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, called for votes to dismiss the two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas.

And the Senate did just that.

Before today's debate, U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate minority leader, urged Democrats in the Senate to take this matter seriously.

And to not dismiss it without a proper hearing.

Under the Constitution and the rules of impeachment, It is the job of this body to consider the articles of impeachment brought before us and to render judgment.

The question right now should be how best to ensure that the charges on the table receive thorough consideration.

But instead, the more pressing question is whether our Democratic colleagues in general and the Senate workers will at all.

Tabling the articles of impeachment would be unprecedented in the history of the Senate.

It's as simple as that.

Quibbling would mean declining to discharge our duties as George.

Democrats and Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah argued that the House impeachment investigation did not reveal any high crimes or misdemeanors as required by the Constitution.