9 Of 10 Senators Who Miss The Most Votes Are Republicans

[Triana]

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FLA) is the “least likely to show up for work.” Ted Cruz (R-TX) also tops the list of no-shows. This is convenient because both are now working as a chairman for subcommittees that oversee climate change in some capacity, and what better way to deny reality than to not show up.

Nine of the ten spots of no-shows go to Republicans, according to a new analysis by Vocativ.com working with GovTrack.us.

Vocativ says there is a Senate absentee rate average of 2.01 percent, with Rubio taking the lead at 8.30% percent no shows. The “biggest no-shows in Congress”, per Vocativ:



The Republicans are Marco Rubio (R-FLA) with an 8.30% absentee rate, Jerry Moran (R-KS), John Boozman (R-AS), Ted Cruz (R-TX), David Vitter (R-LA), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Roy Blunt (R-MO). The Democrat is Brian Schatz (D-HA), which they justify because it’s so far away (um, no, please show up for your pay).

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http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/18/top-ten-senators-lot-votes-republicans-including-ted-cruz-marco-rubio.html

[Historic NY]

1. What funny is they're not even sick or dead yet....

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no wonder Inhofe is such a dupe he can't even showup to find out whats going on.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/02/15/jim-inhofe-fake-ukraine-photos-video/

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. yet the senator that suffered a stroke shows up.

Mark Kirk.

Actually, this is good news. Think of the damage they do when they do vote.

[DesMoinesDem]

3. Wow. John Conyers has missed 16.34% of votes. That's double what Rubio missed. Pathetic.

[Gormy Cuss]

18. Wow, because a Rep missing votes is exactly the same as a Senator.

[DesMoinesDem]

20. Oh, ok. So its OK for Representatives to miss votes, but not Senators.

Got it. Why is there a House of Representatives anyway? They should just get rid of it.

[Gormy Cuss]

21. Yeah, that's exactly what I wrote. *rollseyes*

Each senator is 1% of the potential senate vote. Each rep, .22% of the total vote. Think about it.

[DesMoinesDem]

22. I totally get it. It's not accetable for a Senator to miss 8% of votes

but it's totally cool for a Representative to miss twice that. That makes total sense. I should have never pointed out that Conyers has missed twice as many votes (percentagewise) as the worst Senator. Thanks for correcting me. My bad. Could you let me know at what point I can point out missed votes in the House? 40%? 80%? Is it OK to post the missed House votes chart from the analysis that this article was based on?

[Gormy Cuss]

23. Oh, you totally get it.

It was a perfect opportunity to deflect blame from Senate GOPers.

[DesMoinesDem]

30. Yep, I totally get it. You don't actually care about the missed votes.

This is an issue for partisan attacks, not actual concern. You have made yourself clear.

[Gormy Cuss]

31. You only care about missed votes by Democratics, apparently.

Do go on.

[DesMoinesDem]

32. Nope, sorry. Missing that many votes by any congressman of any party is ridiculous.

Missing 16%, twice that of the worst Senator, is unacceptable. I don't care what party they are from. It just happens that the worst offenders are from the House, and mostly Democrats, a fact that you seem to want to hide, because you don't actually care about the issue.

[RufusTFirefly]

27. FYI, Tammy Duckworth was having a baby.

Excuses, excuses.

[jwirr]

4. In other words it is not how they voted it is IF they voted.

[Triana]

6. IMHO - both. n/t

[jwirr]

8. Right.

[City Lights]

5. Lazy slug freeloaders.

Drug test them!

[Triana]

7. Now I think that is a good idea. Drug test them...

...probably more drug users in Congress than there are on welfare!

And - put them on minimum wage. And take away their lifetime salaries, healthcare and retirement. Let them use Medicare and Soc Security like the rest of us.

[City Lights]

11. Agreed! I'm sick of the whiny prima donnas in Congress

always droning on about how the rest of us should live our lives, while they leech off of us.

[yeoman6987]

26. I also think if you run for President, you need to resign the day you announce

We end up paying them for two years to run around the country while not doing their job.

[FSogol]

9. Augh. I don't even want to imagine what Vitter is doing with his free time.

[Triana]

10. You had to bring that up, didn't ya?

[Renew Deal]

12. If Schatz doesn't want the job, let someone else do it.

It's ridiculous that a Democrat showed up on such a list.

Rubio and Cruz are too busy looking for cameras to vote.

[KamaAina]

13. He just barely squeaked by in the primary.

Rep. Colleen Hanabusa came within a whisker of knocking him off.

[joshcryer]

19. I agree but I wonder if it's because of Hawaii.

That's a hell of a commute.

[Scuba]

14. In his defense, David Vitter is not even out of diapers yet. Give him a break.

[Triana]

15. . . .

[Art_from_Ark]

34. ...

[KansDem]

16. Dock their pay!

I know that if I miss 30 days of work each year I'd be docked!

(Rubio: 8.3 percent of 365 days is 30.295. And this is in addition to recesses!)

[bigwillq]

17. All 10 need to be fired (nt)

[BlueStater]

24. A lot of these guys are up for reelection next year.

Rubio, Boozman, and Blunt, among others. This list could come in handy.

It sure would be nice to make a comeback in Arkansas after how red that state has become in the last five years.

[Art_from_Ark]

35. Did you know that Boozman, Congressman Womack, and now Governor Hutchinson

are all from the same county, and all from within 10 miles of Walmart's world headquarters?

[svpadgham]

25. You know what they say:

Vote your conscience. I guess this just proves these people have no conscience.

[edhopper]

28. I think

Schatz is justified. Those almost in driving distance of DC, not so much.

[redruddyred]

29. obviously they didn't run to govern

they ran b/c they were paid to.

[Orsino]

33. What the fuck is a Democrat doiong on that list? n/t