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To get them all passed on time, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. is racing against GOP senators who are trying to drag out the process by forcing time-consuming votes on typically routine procedural steps.

“I’m quite cruel to my protagonists. I drag them through the mud, I torture them, they suffer a lot of trauma, but then I reward them at the end.”

It has now emerged Mr Burns accused Lyons of “dragging his heels” on the project during the meeting.

Finnish officials later said the incident had been caused by a Chinese container ship dragging its anchor.

It had not been allowed to fire them into Russian territory, for fear that doing so might drag the US and other Nato countries into the war.