Sanders, Cruz leading Senate in missed votes in 2016

[saturnsring]

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

[B2G]

1. Well that's a huge shock. nt

[nichomachus]

2. Coming close to Hillary's record of missed votes in 2008 -- before her campaign collapsed. nt

[oldandhappy]

3. duh

[Angry Dragon]

4. Perhaps the solution is a leave-of-absence without pay

[grossproffit]

6. They should be fired, like regular people would be.

[jillan]

5. Gee - I wonder why?!

[senz]

7. Geez, you'd think they had something else going on ...

really hard to be in two places at once.

[jg10003]

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]

9. Wonder why?

It's not like they're doing anything else.

[Gwhittey]

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]

11. Gee, I wonder what he was doing during that time...