[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 27 (Thursday, February 10, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S644]
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                              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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