The Senate experienced a roughly 12-hour outage of email and website access due to a hardware failure in a network router. Technicians completed repairs early in the morning and were testing services to ensure full functionality was restored. While the cause was a hardware issue, there was no evidence of any wrongdoing related to the outage.

1. Senate emails back up after 'network outage'
The roughly 12-hour outage came after a "network router experienced a hardware failure," the
Sergeant-at-Arms's office explained in an email to Senate staffers. There was no evidence of any
wrongdoing.
The office told staffers that technicians completed repairs early this morning, but are still testing
services to ensure they are fully functional.
Four Senate staffers confirmed their
emails were down on Wednesday
evening and they were having trouble
accessing some Senate websites, but
they did not know what caused the
outage.
One Senate staffer told CNN that
email systems in his office went down
at around 5:20 p.m.
"It seems likely that that's not just
some routine maintenance," he said,
adding that he had not received any
updates from the Sergeant-at-Arms
office nor had he heard from the
Capitol Hill Police Department.
At about 9:06 p.m., the Sergeant-a-
-Arms tweeted that the issue had been
identified and engineers were working
on a fix.
CNN's Ted Barrett contributed to this report.