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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSanders, Cruz leading Senate in missed votes in 2016
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) are leading the Senate in missed votes so far this year as they battle for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations.
Sanders missed more votes than any other senator during the first quarter of 2016, skipping 37 of the Senate's 38 roll call votes, according to GovTrack.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/274833-sanders-cruz-leading-senate-in-missed-votes-in-2016
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Sanders, Cruz leading Senate in missed votes in 2016 (Original Post)
saturnsring
Apr 2016
OP
Coming close to Hillary's record of missed votes in 2008 -- before her campaign collapsed. nt
nichomachus
Apr 2016
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B2G
(9,766 posts)1. Well that's a huge shock. nt
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)2. Coming close to Hillary's record of missed votes in 2008 -- before her campaign collapsed. nt
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)3. duh
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)4. Perhaps the solution is a leave-of-absence without pay
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)6. They should be fired, like regular people would be.
jillan
(39,451 posts)5. Gee - I wonder why?!
senz
(11,945 posts)7. Geez, you'd think they had something else going on ...
really hard to be in two places at once.
jg10003
(976 posts)8. Did they miss any votes on anything important, or where their vote would make a difference?
I am willing to give both Sanders and Cruz (also Clinton and Obama in 2008) a pass on missing routine roll call and procedural votes. But they should be there for a major vote (e.g. a supreme court nomination).
zappaman
(20,606 posts)9. Wonder why?
It's not like they're doing anything else.
Gwhittey
(1,377 posts)10. This is a matter for the VT voters to take up.
For Sanders that is. But you are right about posting this because poor people in VT are not going to be able to decide the vote for him in Senate because in Jan he has to give up his seat to do something on Jan 21.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)11. Gee, I wonder what he was doing during that time...