WASHINGTON (WCMH) — Not much is getting done on Capitol Hill as the partial federal government shutdown heads towards week four, and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown says nothing will happen until Senate Republicans make it happen.

“If the president is going to continue to dig in after shutting the government down three weeks ago, then Congress has got to do its job, and that means Mitch McConnell has got to bring up a bill,” Brown said. “We’ll pass the bill; we will get enough votes to keep the government open.”

Brown explained that the Senate was able to get enough votes to re-open the government before and also called on his colleagues to override any potential veto from President Donald Trump. The president is holding firm to his demand for more than $5 billion to fund border security, most notably the long-promised border wall. Democrats, however, have said that’s not going to happen and negotiations have stalled.

Brown said despite the administration’s stance that the government will not re-open unless the border wall is funded, several Republicans he has spoken to are willing to get the government up and running.

“A number of Republicans — and the number is up to six or seven — have said publicly or to their leadership that they want to vote to open the government up and Mitch McConnell, as this number grows, the pressure grows on McConnell to do the right thing.”

On Friday, approximately 800,000 federal employees, more than half of whom are still working without pay, missed their first paycheck. The shutdown set a record Saturday as the longest in U.S. history, surpassing the previous record of 21 days that happened under former President Bill Clinton.