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Originally Posted by PersonaNonGrata
While you're looking this up, please look up his voting record during those whopping 143 days. I have heard that he rarely voted and instead just logged his "present". :eek:
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We don't get news reports locally on who voted for what, so I had to look it up to get some historical data for the 110th and 109th Congresses. I keep hearing about this habit of voting 'present', so I wanted to see. The votes are reported as Y, N, or Not Voting in this database. I suspect that Not Voting ties into the reported practice of voting 'present'.
It appears that Obama missed a lot of votes, a reported 45.9% in the last congress. Biden missed 30.8%. But McCain reportedly missed 64.1%. Hadn't heard that figure before.
Interesting that in the previous congress, Obama missed 1.7% of the votes, and McCain missed 9%. Guess that is what happens when you stop working at your day job and start trying to get your next job.
There is a full list of what they voted on, when they did not vote, etc. Pretty easy to find it.
I used this link. Yes, some have slammed the Washington Post, but look at their source, or go directly there:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/c.../vote-missers/
It draws info from here:
http://www.senate.gov/ but I found the first link easier to search on.
Carry on.