Showing up: 10,000 consecutive votes
What they say
Her campaign says she has cast more than 10,000 consecutive roll-call votes without missing one.
“Senator Collins has cast more than 10,000 consecutive roll call votes without missing one.”
What the record shows ·
The Congressional Record for June 4, 2026 prints the majority leader and the minority leader marking her 10,000th consecutive roll-call vote that day, and the Democratic whip calling her the first senator in the country's history to reach it. The Record prints 27 roll calls for that day, votes 137 to 163, held from 10:30 a.m. to 4:42 a.m. the next morning. The Senate's own vote records list her voting Yea or Nay on every one, Yea on Roll Call 147, the vote after the tribute.
Limit: The number 10,000 is the party leaders' statement on the Senate floor, printed in the official Record, not a count this desk made; counting it would mean reading every Senate roll call since January 1997. Nothing read for this desk shows a missed vote. Her campaign's home page still gives an older figure, more than 9,800.