The longest government shutdown in U.S. history might be coming to an end, in part after Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman helped to advance a stopgap funding bill Sunday night . However, some of his constituents said they struggled to reach his office ahead of the vote.

As word got around that a deal was imminent in the Senate to end the government shutdown , from his home near Harrisburg, Greg Loring-Albright decided to reach out to Fetterman. Like he's done previously, he called the Capitol switchboard to route him to Fetterman's office.

"It routed to a prerecorded message about how Senator Fetterman's office was not taking calls because of the shutdown and because it was outside of business hours," Loring-Albright said.

He thought he'd then get a beep to leave a vo

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