The senators declined to say if they had heard anything during their trip to change their minds about the bill.

The senators and their aides declined to comment for this article.

The senators declined to say whether they might ask the President to testify.

For weeks many senators had declined to discuss the impeachment inquiry publicly, saying they did not seriously believe it would reach the Senate.

Every subsequent senator who has sat at that desk has also declined to have it improved.

The senator declined to say what they were.

The senator also declined a request for an interview.

But the senators declined to discuss the progress they said they had made.

Through a spokesman, the senator declined to be interviewed, saying he had already articulated his views in a lengthy Senate speech.

Many other senators declined to comment when asked whether they would intercede as their colleagues did for Lincoln.