During the shutdown, the Senate has been running on its typical weekly schedule, which begins Monday afternoon and ends Thursday afternoon. “We’re pretending that everything is OK. We’re pretending that people are not being impacted by this shutdown,” Murkowski said in a speech on Monday. Advertisement“I don’t think we should be going home and just behaving as if this was another week in the United States Senate. Murkowski noted that U.S. Capitol Police officers and other Senate support staff are going unpaid during the shutdown, unlike members of Congress, and still showing up for work. But the idea of weekend sessions has been shot down repeatedly by Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.

Source: Huffington Post October 29, 2025 03:44 UTC