The latest Senate effort to reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund could be in trouble once again, this time because of the government shutdown.
Some Democrats argue the Senate should be voting to reopen the government before it brings other bills to the floor.
“We shouldn’t let Mitch McConnell pretend that we’re not in a shutdown,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told Bloomberg Environment, referring to the Senate majority leader. “He’s refusing to negotiate, he’s refusing to try to solve this problem, and I don’t know that I want to be complicit in that” by continuing to move other ...