Senate Majority Leader(R-Ky.) announced on Thursday that the Senate will return to Washington on Jan. 3, though it remains unclear when's impeachment trial will start.

"For the information of all of our colleagues, the Senate will convene on Friday, Jan. 3, to kick off the second session of the 116th Congress. However, no roll call votes are expected that day and members should be prepared to be back and voting on Monday, Jan. 6," McConnell said from the Senate floor.

McConnell's announcement comes as the Senate is prepared to leave Washington for the year without a deal on key parts of the impeachment trial, including whether to have witnesses, or what the resolution establishing the rules of the trial will look like.

Senators expect the impeachment trial will start in January. But in a curveball , House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has not said when the House will transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate and appoint impeachment managers.

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The chamber's first votes of the year will be on Monday, Jan. 6, McConnell said on the Senate floor."We'll make that decision as a group, as we always have, as we go along,"told reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday.