Per (CNN)

The Senate is at an "impasse" about setting the rules of the impeachment trial

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday, leaving the status of the trial in limbo as lawmakers leave Washington until the new year.

The House of Representatives took its final vote of the year Thursday without appointing impeachment managersor sending articles of impeachment to the Senate, suggesting that House Democrats won't take the steps needed to start the impeachment trial in the Senate until January.

McConnell has left open the possibility of voting to move forward with the trial without a bipartisan agreement when the Senate returns in January.

Pelosi cited the 100-0 Senate vote that established the rules for the Clinton impeachment trial in the Senate and said she hoped a similar agreement would be struck this time.

"We would hope they would come to some conclusion like that. But in any event, we're ready. When we see what they have, we will know who and how many we will send over. That's all I'm going to say about that now," Pelosi said.