CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- It has been 41 days since the federal government shut down because Congress could not pass a continuing resolution.

It is the record for the longest shutdown in history.

On Monday evening, the U.S. Senate voted to approve a continuing resolution by a vote of 60 to 40, just barely clearing the filibuster.

Now the U.S. House must approve that same bill before it can head to President Trump’s desk to reopen the government

Both Republican Senators from Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, voted for that resolution.

Senator Blackburn in a statement blamed Senate Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer of New York for the shutdown, saying that he was pushing for quote, “wasteful far-left spending”

Meanwhile, both of the Democratic Senators from Georgia

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