Senate Democrats voted for a 14th time to keep the federal government closed on Tuesday, marking the 35th day of the shutdown.

While speaking with reporters on Tuesday about “how close” bipartisan talks are to reaching a solution, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said, “I hope close, but the pressures, the cross-pressures that everybody’s feeling, are great.”

“But I think there are people who realize this has gone on long enough and there’s been enough pain inflicted on the American people and it’s time to end it,” Thune said. “We’ll see whether the sufficient numbers are there.”

He said he’s doing “everything he can” to make it clear what Republicans are willing to do on appropriations, funding the government, and changes to Obamacare.

“So the universe I think is pretty defined and established,” he said. “The question is whether or not they take yes for an answer.”

The South Dakota Republican said he’s hopeful that “we’ll make some progress” this week, saying “we are trying to land this appropriations bill on which I think a continuing resolution could ride, and obviously we’re going to have to extend the date as everybody knows because we’re already up against the November deadline right now.”