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Christopher A. Coons and Thomas R. Carper were mentioned in FLOOR VOTES on page S644 covering the 2nd Session of the 117th Congress published on Feb. 10 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

FLOOR VOTES

Mr. TILLIS. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that this letter be printed in the Record.

There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:

U.S. Senate,

Washington, DC, February 2, 2022. Hon. Charles E. Schumer, Majority Leader, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. Hon. Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC.

Dear Majority Leader Schumer and Minority Leader McConnell: As you know, despite our collective efforts to encourage Members to vote on the Senate floor in a timely manner, votes are often left open well beyond the allotted time, frustrating a majority of Members from both sides of the aisle. Often, the outcome of the vote is not in doubt.

With this in mind and in order to expedite floor votes, we are instructing the Presiding Officer to close any vote in which: (a) one of the signatories below is the last remaining vote; and (b) the Member's vote would not change the outcome. However, on any particular vote, if a signatory requests that the vote be held open, they may do so by providing notice to their Cloakroom.

Sincerely,

Thom Tillis, Angus S. King, Jr., Christopher A. Coons,

Roy Blunt, Shelley Moore Capito, Patrick J. Leahy,

Kyrsten Sinema, Jon Tester, Ron Johnson, Amy Klobuchar,

Jon Ossoff, John Barrasso, Patty Murray, Sheldon

Whitehouse, Rick Scott.

Mark R. Warner, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Rob Portman, Mike

Rounds, James Lankford, Joni Ernst, Cynthia M. Lummis,

Mike Crapo, Bill Hagerty, Richard Burr, Dan Sullivan,

Debbie Stabenow, Roger Marshall, Jerry Moran, James E.

Risch, Tommy Tuberville, Tim Kaine.

Lisa Murkowski, John W. Hickenlooper, Richard J. Durbin,

Robert P. Casey, Jr., Ben Sasse, Benjamin L. Cardin,

Tammy Duckworth, Margaret Wood Hassan, Jack Reed, Roger

F. Wicker, Todd Young, John Boozman, Chris Van Hollen,

Michael F. Bennet, Martin Heinrich, Robert Menendez.

Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mike Braun, Jeanne Shaheen, Deb

Fischer, John Kennedy, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, Joe

Manchin, III, Sherrod Brown, Bill Cassidy, John Cornyn,

John Thune, Mark Kelly, Cory A. Booker, Richard

Blumenthal, Brian Schatz.

Patrick J. Toomey, Lindsey Graham, Steve Daines, John

Hoeven, Gary C. Peters, Jeff Merkley, Rand Paul,

Bernard Sanders, James M. Inhofe, Alex Padilla,

Christopher Murphy, Tina Smith, Kevin Cramer, Marsha

Blackburn, Thomas R. Carper, Ron Wyden, Dianne

Feinstein.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 27

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