A group of Republican Senators responded Tuesday to the decision by Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell to cancel the first two weeks of the scheduled recess. On June 30, Senator Joni Ernst joined nine others in penning a letter to McConnell requesting to work through the recess, saying they want to continue the progress being made on fixing health care, funding the government, dealing with the debt ceiling, passing a budget resolution and improving the tax code. The other Senators included: David Perdue of Georgia; Steve Daines of Montana; John Kennedy of Louisiana; James Lankford of Oklahoma; Mike Lee of Utah; Mike Rounds of South Dakota; Luther Strange of Alabama; Dan Sullivan of Alaska; and Thom Tillis of North Carolina.
