WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he would support bipartisan legislation to make government shutdowns more difficult as federal agencies returned to work after a partial shutdown that spanned more than a month.
“I’m certainly open to it,” McConnell told reporters.
(Reporting by Amanda Becker and Makini Brice; Writing by Lisa Lambert; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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