U.S. Senator McConnell would support bill making shutdowns more difficult

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)