A week into the government shutdown, do you know where your senator is?

Six days into the partial government shutdown, negotiations are continuing behind closed doors, but that means little work is happening on the floors of the House and the Senate. Rank-and-file lawmakers are acutely aware that the 800,000 affected federal employees are counting on Congress to act, but there’s little they can do until leaders work out an agreement with the White House.

So, in the meantime, where are the nation’s 100 senators, and what are they doing? We asked every office and got some responses. We will update this list as more responses come in.

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): “Senator Cardin is on personal travel with his family.”

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA): “He was on Fox and Friends from Baton Rouge this morning. He stands ready to fly to D.C. and reopen the government the moment Schumer and his Senate Democrats stop blocking a vote to fund the government and stronger border security.”

Note: Cassidy also sent a letter to FEMA administrator Brock Long, urging him to keep the agency selling new policies under the National Flood Insurance Program despite the government shutdown.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME): “She went to her 91-year-old mother’s house, in Caribou near the Canadian border, for the afternoon and evening of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. She returned to her home on Bangor yesterday. She has been meeting with constituents today and talking with colleagues on both sides of the aisle about potential solutions to this impasse.” Read more

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A week into the government shutdown, do you know where your senator is?

Six days into the partial government shutdown, negotiations are continuing behind closed doors, but that means little work is happening on the floors of the House and the Senate. Rank-and-file lawmakers are acutely aware that the 800,000 affected federal employees are counting on Congress to act, but there’s little they can do until leaders work out an agreement with the White House.