McCain, the most absent member of Senate, blasts Congress for taking week off »
Posted By bubba2 3 months ago in NewsOn Tuesday, John McCain appeared on MSNBC and blasted Congress for being lazy. He said that instead of taking a Fourth of July recess, senators should have stuck around and passed a housing bill. But he hasn't been present for any of the 6 votes on the housing bill. In fact, he hasn't actually voted on anything in the Senate since April 8.
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I'm pretty much OUTTA here! The new format (still) S-U-C-K-S!
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bubba23 months ago
FTA --
McCain now ranks as the #1 most absent senator of the 110th Congress, having missed 61.8 percent of the votes.
As Ian Fried at the Seminal writes, "If McCain thinks that the Housing Reform bill is that important, then instead of travelling to Colombia and Mexico, he should have gone to Washington and helped negotiate the bill."
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donald513 months ago
How quickly McCain has forgotten that his fellow repug, Hastert, had the House only working 4 days a week since big business lobbyists were writing the rules of the land - to give us the mess we have now!
How much nore Repug hypocrisy can we take? We need to get the Congress with a 2/3rds Dem control to declare the RNC a terrorist organization, and ban it and its un-American behavior!
Hey, Dumya was the most absent president... and let 911 happen as a consequence!
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donald513 months ago
What good is it if he is there? 95% of the time he votes with Bush and he even flip-flopped on his own Anti-torture Bill after being on Cheney's carpet!
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bubba23 months ago
I'm fascinated that someone would sink a story when the data is a matter of government, public record that McCain is the MOST ABSENT member of the Senate.
The truth hurts, I guess ...
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