Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Wednesday evening moved to block action on non-controversial bills such as the one to honor Pearl Harbor Day, hoping to buy more time to negotiate a longer-term solution for miners losing their healthcare. They had earler spent the day threatening to filibuster a short-term spending bill to keep the government running past Friday.

Brown and Manchin said they will continue to use the Senate’s procedural rules to throw up hurdles until they get a longer-term fix for the miners.