Dem Senator Really Doesn’t Like Showing Up To Work On Mondays
Democrat Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman said on Monday that he has missed some votes on the Senate floor in recent months because they were held on Mondays. The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on…
Democrat Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman said on Monday that he has missed some votes on the Senate floor in recent months because they were held on Mondays.
The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on May 25 that Fetterman missed 29 of the 236 votes since January, the third-worst record in the Senate. During a debate moderated by Fox Nation host Shannon Bream, the Pennsylvania senator said that these reports are a “weird smear” against him and that the majority of the votes he missed were held on “travel days.”
“It’s just part of a smear and it’s just not accurate. Now we move on and we’re still having this conversation, why at this point? I’m here, I’m doing that job, I’m defending on all those things and all of those important votes, I’ve always been there,” Fetterman said. “And for me, if I miss some of those votes, I’ve made 90% of those and we all know those votes that I’ve missed are on Monday, those are travel days. And I have three young kids and those are throwaway procedural votes, that they were never determinative or important, and that’s a choice that I made.”
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Fetterman said that independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democrat Washington Sen. Patty Murray missed more votes than him, and questioned why the left-wing media is not giving them negative press on the matter. Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Dave McCormick, who attended the debate, condemned the Democrats’ “disgraceful smears” against Fetterman in a May 9 post on X.
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