It will take unanimous consent of 100 senators to keep the government from at least a brief shutdown.

The Senate adjourned after 10 p.m. Thursday, leaving less than a day in session to try to avert a funding lapse that was appearing inevitable, without votes scheduled on anything resembling a deal that could win bipartisan support.

Emotions were running high in the chamber Thursday, with the tension becoming the most clear after senators had begun to leave for the night.

Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine who caucuses with the Democrats, temporarily delayed the Senate’s departure by taking the unusual step of publicly objecting to the effort by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to set the next day’s schedule.

That situation ultimately resolved itself, but there is no vote yet scheduled on the House-passed package that combines a continuing resolution through mid-February with six years of the Children’s Health Insurance Plan reauthorization and extended delays of some of the taxes from the 2010 health care law.