Senate Plans Rare Friday, Weekend Votes
It’s a Friday and senators are still in town. It’s the strongest sign yet that lawmakers are perhaps nearing a bipartisan off-ramp to end the shutdown.
The Senate has had multiple long weekends during this government shutdown (the House hasn’t been in session at all). But senators are sticking around today, and likely through the weekend, to vote on legislation that could end the longest shutdown in US history.
- “I think we are going to be here until it’s over, so this weekend and next week,” Sen.
Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said.
Senate Republicans ...