A recent Senate vote to end the government shutdown failed to get the 60 votes needed to pass. Ohio Senators Jon Husted and Bernie Moreno both voted in favor of the failed stopgap funding bill. The current shutdown began on October 1 and is a result of a deadlock over healthcare funding.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is putting a House-passed bill on Defense Department appropriations up for a procedural vote Wednesday afternoon. With 60 votes required to move forward, the bill will likely need at least seven Democrats to support it,

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has set up one vote Tuesday afternoon to reopen the government, giving Democrats only the opportunity to vote for or against a House-passed continuing

The compact "demands that American universities surrender their institutional autonomy and place themselves under the control of the U.S. Federal Government," the faculty senate wrote.