The Senate on Thursday is expected to kill two bills aimed at ending the government shutdown and send everyone back to the drawing board on how to reopen parts of the federal bureaucracy that have been shuttered for five weeks.

But the votes could see some senators buck their party leaders and vote for the opposing party’s plan, which will give some sense of whether either side is wavering in a battle that has led to the longest shutdown in U.S. history.

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