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O Congress Person, Where Art Thou?

posted by Gur
Tue, 05/09/2006 - 3:06pm

Always good to know what your Congress Member is up to.  So thought I'd shed a quick bit of light on who's been doing what...

Here are New York's top five congressional vote missers from January 2005 to the present (umm ... hmmm ... seems like someone has some explaining to do):

Sweeney John 18.43%
Meeks Gregory 9.06%
Towns Edolphus 7.55%
Slaughter Louise 5.59%
Rangel Charles 5.59%

And kudos to New York's top five congressional vote casters... 

Lowey Nita 0.30%
Kuhl John 0.45%
Bishop Timothy 0.60%
Israel Steve 1.21%
Engel Eliot 1.21%

Update: John Sweeney missed 60 out of 555 recorded votes in 2005, and 62 out of 107 votes in 2006. 

(Compliments of Voter Information Services)


Pressure Still on Feds to
Submitted by Jerry Skurnik on Tue, 05/09/2006 - 3:23pm.
I hate to defend John Sweeney but he was out for about a month with an illness. I think that is largely responsible for his missed votes.

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Let's Change The Primary
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/09/2006 - 5:39pm.
gur, where is this data from? can you link to it? it's only fair that readers get to see the whole list of votes so we can see the numbers in context. thanks.

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Let's Change The Primary
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/09/2006 - 5:59pm.
jerry: if you do the math, sweeney still missed over 10 percent in 2005 before he was sick, still making him the highest absentee...

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Consolation Prize: The AG
Submitted by ROCK (not verified) on Tue, 05/09/2006 - 7:39pm.
 JERRY, please don't try to defend these clowns. TYVM (lol).
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Consolation Prize: The AG
Submitted by Gur on Tue, 05/09/2006 - 9:53pm.

The data was pulled from Voter Information Services reports showing how many votes each member of Congress missed in one year. A "missed" vote is a recorded vote on the floor of the House or the Senate during which the member "did  not make his/her position known." 

Votes during which the member "paired" for or against, voted present, etc. are NOT counted as "missed" votes.

FYI.  The reports do not show the actual content of the votes that were missed. 


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