STILL GOING – Vehicles are parked outside a Bureau of the Fiscal Service facility in Parkersburg Wednesday. The president of a union representing many local employees at the bureau said most were on the job as usual despite the federal government shutdown. -- Evan Bevins

CHARLESTON — Attempts by both Republican and Democratic U.S. senators to end an impasse on federal government funding that started a shutdown of services Wednesday failed for a second day.

The Senate voted 55-45 Wednesday afternoon on a motion to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed with a vote on the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, the continuing resolution passed last month by the U.S. House of Representatives that would have funded the federal government at current levels through Nov. 21.

While the mot

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