Two Senate races were in limbo Wednesday as election authorities counted ballots more than a week after Election Day.

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.