One Senate Republican proved that it's still possible to bridge the chasm between the aisles after brokering an end to the longest government shutdown in history.The 43-day impasse in Congress may have ended in the House, but it was in the Senate that Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., worked to build an old-fashioned bipartisan coalition to jump-start the stalled chamber.It took several weeks, numerous conversations and reconstructing broken trust between Senate Republicans and Democrats to pull off what would become a bipartisan package to reopen the government.HOW CLOSED-DOOR NEGOTIATIONS AND A GUAR...
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