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WASHINGTON (Court TV) — After nearly a five-hour session, Presidential friend and Washington attorney Vernon Jordan finished giving his deposition at about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol.

As they did with Lewinsky, the White House team declined the opportunity to ask any questions.

House managers were expected to question Jordan about his efforts to find Monica Lewinsky a job, focusing on alleged inconsistencies between his testimony and hers. Also behind closed doors on Tuesday, several senators have been watching the videotape of Lewinsky's deposition, given on Monday.

The last of the House prosecutors' three witnesses, White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, is scheduled to be deposed on Wednesday. The impeachment trial will resume Thursday, and may move directly to closing arguments if the depositions don't bring forth any new information.

The Senate may vote on whether to release the videotaped deposition to the public, and on whether it should call witnesses to testify live at the trial.

Starting shortly after 9:00 a.m. Tuesday morning, Jordan was questioned privately in a room normally used by used by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., and Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, attended the deposition.

Jordan last testified in June, 1998, two months before Lewinsky began to cooperate with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Prosecutors want to find out just how much the former White House intern told Jordan of her relationship with the president.

Jordan arranged a job for the former White House intern at the same tim she was preparing a false affidavit denying her relationship with Clinton for Paula Jones' lawyers, in December 1997.

The two actions are linked in the impeachment article accusing Clinton of obstruction of justice. Prosecutors claim Jordan helped her find a job to buy her silence regarding her sexual relationship with the president.

In her grand jury testimony, Lewinsky offered specific details that linked Jordan to conversations about gifts she received from Clinton, destroyed notes to the president and a false affidavit in which she denied an affair. Her testimony was often at odds with Jordan's account.

Lewinsky said she had showed Jordan gifts that Clinton gave her, but Jordan testified that he didn't remember being shown them. Lewinsky said she thought Jordan told her to destroy drafts of notes she'd written to the president. Jordan denied instructing her to do so.

Jordan said he had no reason to doubt Lewinsky's denial of her relationship with Clinton, but Lewinsky said she told him of sexually-explicit conversations she had had with the president. Jordan said he did not recall any such reference.

The two also disagree on whether they ate breakfast together; Lewinsky said they did and Jordan denied it although he apparently signed the restaurant receipt.

Lewinsky's four-hour deposition on Monday closely resembled her earlier grand jury testimony and offered no new information, according to sources familiar with the testimony who spoke on condition of anonymity. Lewinsky's lawyers declined comment.

While White House lawyers did not question Lewinsky, but did pass along an apology from Clinton. Attorney Nicole Seligman read a statement that apologized to Ms. Lewinsky "on behalf of the president for all the trouble the investigation and impeachment trial had caused her," one of the sources said.

Unless the depositions yield new information, the Senate will proceed to closing arguments and final deliberations when it reconvenes on Thursday. That schedule could allow lawmakers to meet their target for ending the trial by Feb. 12.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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