Turns out, what the Senate has decided to do is to have a swearing in of Senators and then take a "recess" for a couple of weeks.   This buys time for the new Senate body - -absent some from the last Congress and including some new members -- to do a lot of hashing out of the procedural issues, and maybe some horse-trading before they have to vote on whether this new Senate is "a continuing body" (with the old rules intact) or it will be a "new" body with amended rules.

This means we have a couple more weeks to contact our Senators (and those from other states) and urge them to amend the rules to prevent rampant, indiscriminate obstructionism.