Democrat Scott Colom defeated GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate race, delivering Democrats an eighth flipped Senate seat after the dramatic race had been up in the air for days.

Whitehouse, a Democrat ​from Rhode Island, who is one of the bill's four authors, is in Turkey attending the COP 31 United ​Nations climate change conference • He told reporters by phone that ⁠he ⁠would return by Monday ⁠for ​the next permitting reform vote • Some senators are submitting proposed ​amendments to ⁠the bill this week.