The U.S. Senate’s famous Ohio Clock has ticked its last tock … for now.
The stately clock, which has proudly provided passers-by with the time for nearly 200 years, stopped running at 12:14 p.m. on Wednesday because the government employees tasked with winding it had been furloughed as part of the shutdown.
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Employees in the Office of the Senate Curator normally wind the clock, which stands outside the Senate chamber’s south door, weekly. But because they were among the more than 800,000 federal employees to be furloughed last week, nobody remained to set the old-time timer.
The Ohio Clock, which was placed in the old Senate chamber in 1817 and moved to its current location in 1859.