Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The Senate is scheduled to meet at 3 p.m. EDT Monday, but there's no plan to vote on a funding bill on the 27th day of the federal government shutdown.
Meanwhile, the largest labor union in the United States has called on lawmakers to reopen the government.
"Both political parties have made their point, and still there is no clear end in sight," Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said in a statement. The union represents 800,000 federal government workers.
The statement offered a path for Congress: "Reopen the government immediately under a clean continuing resolution that allows continued debate on larger issues; ensure back pay for every single employee who has served or been forced to stay home through no fault of their own; work together on a bipartisan basis to address important policy matters like addressing rising costs and fixing the broken appropriations process."
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