This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. The Senate was a pretty lonely place for some Democrats last week. Certainly, the eight lawmakers who compromised with Senate Republicans to reopen the government after six weeks of a shutdown felt the icy reception. But one person—to be clear, someone who voted against the negotiated climb-down—felt the freezer burn more than most: their Minority Leader, Sen. Chuck