Tillis has been at the heart of nearly every major bipartisan effort to emerge from the Senate. “He is an extraordinarily good vote counter,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said. A wave of retirements has taken many more bipartisan-minded lawmakers out of the chamber. N.C. Sen. Thom Tillis has worked on nearly every bipartisan piece of legislation to emerge from the Senate in the past year and a half. Tillis rejects the label of “dealmaker” and emphasizes the conservative stamp he’s placed on the legislation he’s worked on.
