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Rep. Cubin Voting Again, Misses Two of Five Voting Sessions
By Brodie Farquhar, 10-24-07
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According to the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Rep. Barbara Cubin, R-Wyoming, voted six times today – her third day of voting since she resumed voting on Wednesday of last week.
Cubin had missed about 46 percent of all votes in the House this year, before she resumed voting on Wednesday and Thursday last week, when one of her nine votes helped uphold President Bush’s veto of an expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
While there were no House votes on Friday, there were 12 roll call votes on Monday and Tuesday of this week – all of which Rep. Cubin missed.
On Sunday, in a Casper Star-Tribune news article, Cubin defended her job performance, saying she and her staff were doing a fine job at constituent services and the legislative process, working with fellow representatives on bills.
As for actual votes though, according to a Washington Post database, http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/house/vote-missers/ “>Cubin had missed 452 of 982 votes or 46 percent of the vote.
As of Wednesday noon, she has missed 464 of 1,000 votes, or 46.4 percent of all House votes this year.
Cubin has blamed most of those missed votes on her husband’s precarious health, the death of her brother and a falling accident last month when she broke several toes on one foot.
Cubin has the worst living voting record in the House of Representatives. Of the four worst voting records in this session of the House, Cubin is one and the other three have died in office: Charles Norwood, R-Ga., Jo Ann Davis, R-Va. and Juanita Mellinder-McDonald, D-Ca.
The top five on the no-show House members list are Tom Tancredo, R-Co., Duncan Hunter, R-Ca., Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., Bobby Jindal, R-La. and Ron Paul, R-Tx. That’s three presidential candidates, Jindal (who was just elected governor of Louisiana) and Hastert, the former Speaker of the House.
Cubin has had attendance problems in the past, but none as bad as this year.
According to the Washington Post database, she missed 267 of 996 votes in the 2001-2002 session, or 26.8 percent. In other sessions, she’s ranged from six to 13 percent absenteeism.
This year, all House members have missed 3.9 percent of votes.
By comparison, all Senate members have missed 4.9 percent of the votes, primarily due to the absence of Sen. Tim Johnson, D-SD (a brain hemorrhage) and a crowd of presidential hopefuls such as John McCain, R-Az., Joe Biden, D-Del., Chris Dodd, D-Conn., Sam Brownback, R-Ka., Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Hillary Clinton, D-NY.
Repeated phone calls to Rep. Cubin’s office to reach her press secretary went unreturned.
As I recall in last Sunday's Casper Star Tribune, Rep. Cubin promised to do a better job.
I suppose that making three out of five voting sessions is an improvement of sorts.
I wonder if her husband has had a health relapse or if there was something on those two days she missed, that she didn't want to vote one way or the other?
Being elected so many times, she must know her audience and have the "qualities" that they want to see in a leader. So, I guess my experience would tell me that the more important question, at least in Wyoming, is whether she is still baking those perverse cookies.
Comment By steve, 10-24-07Nice try with Ron Paul by the way but the facts really are he has missed less than 8% of the votes cast in the last 10 years.
I love how you people try to discredit Ron Paul so i got the percentage list from the washington post of the real story of missing vote percentage. there are actually 58 people ahead of Paul in which 27 are republicans considering the writer says pauls is in the top 5 of all missed votes. here is Ron Pauls record :
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
Representing: Texas, District 14
Votes: 84 votes missed (6.9 percent of 1213 total votes)
This sure is a political site alright.
If you are going to make up propaganda make sure you can cover it up first.
Now lets see all 57 ahead of Ron Paul.
you can also view it here : http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/109/house/vote-missers/
Missed Votes by Member
43.2%
Rep. Lane Evans (D-IL)
Representing: Illinois, District 17
Votes: 525 votes missed (43.2 percent of 1214 total votes)
24.8%
Rep. Jim Davis (D-FL)
Representing: Florida, District 11
Votes: 301 votes missed (24.8 percent of 1214 total votes)
22.3%
Rep. Ted Strickland (D-OH)
Representing: Ohio, District 6
Votes: 269 votes missed (22.3 percent of 1206 total votes)
17.5%
Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN)
Representing: Tennessee, District 9
Votes: 212 votes missed (17.5 percent of 1213 total votes)
16.8%
Rep. Ernest Istook (R-OK)
Representing: Oklahoma, District 5
Votes: 204 votes missed (16.8 percent of 1213 total votes)
15.6%
Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL)
Representing: Illinois, District 4
Votes: 188 votes missed (15.6 percent of 1208 total votes)
14.4%
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)
Representing: Georgia, District 5
Votes: 175 votes missed (14.4 percent of 1213 total votes)
Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA)
Representing: California, District 37
Votes: 175 votes missed (14.4 percent of 1213 total votes)
Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY)
Representing: New York, District 20
Votes: 174 votes missed (14.4 percent of 1206 total votes)
13.9%
Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ)
Representing: New Jersey, District 10
Votes: 169 votes missed (13.9 percent of 1213 total votes)
13.1%
Rep. Jim Nussle (R-IA)
Representing: Iowa, District 1
Votes: 159 votes missed (13.1 percent of 1213 total votes)
12.8%
Rep. Christopher Cox (R-CA)
Representing: California, District 48
Votes: 58 votes missed (12.8 percent of 453 total votes)
12.5%
Rep. Michael Oxley (R-OH)
Representing: Ohio, District 4
Votes: 152 votes missed (12.5 percent of 1213 total votes)
12.2%
Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL)
Representing: Florida, District 3
Votes: 148 votes missed (12.2 percent of 1214 total votes)
Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL)
Representing: Illinois, District 6
Votes: 148 votes missed (12.2 percent of 1213 total votes)
12.1%
Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA)
Representing: Iowa, District 3
Votes: 147 votes missed (12.1 percent of 1214 total votes)
11.9%
Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX)
Representing: Texas, District 15
Votes: 144 votes missed (11.9 percent of 1213 total votes)
11.6%
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI)
Representing: Rhode Island, District 1
Votes: 141 votes missed (11.6 percent of 1213 total votes)
11.0%
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
Representing: Florida, District 23
Votes: 134 votes missed (11.0 percent of 1213 total votes)
10.9%
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX)
Representing: Texas, District 32
Votes: 132 votes missed (10.9 percent of 1206 total votes)
10.7%
Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX)
Representing: Texas, District 16
Votes: 130 votes missed (10.7 percent of 1213 total votes)
10.5%
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)
Representing: Georgia, District 4
Votes: 127 votes missed (10.5 percent of 1213 total votes)
10.3%
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA)
Representing: Pennsylvania, District 2
Votes: 125 votes missed (10.3 percent of 1214 total votes)
10.2%
Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL)
Representing: Florida, District 13
Votes: 124 votes missed (10.2 percent of 1213 total votes)
Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA)
Representing: California, District 13
Votes: 123 votes missed (10.2 percent of 1206 total votes)
10.1%
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Representing: Florida, District 25
Votes: 123 votes missed (10.1 percent of 1214 total votes)
10.0%
Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-WY)
Representing: Wyoming, At Large
Votes: 122 votes missed (10.0 percent of 1214 total votes)
Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-VA)
Representing: Virginia, District 1
Votes: 122 votes missed (10.0 percent of 1214 total votes)
9.5%
Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-NV)
Representing: Nevada, District 2
Votes: 115 votes missed (9.5 percent of 1213 total votes)
Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX)
Representing: Texas, District 3
Votes: 115 votes missed (9.5 percent of 1213 total votes)
9.3%
Rep. John Larson (D-CT)
Representing: Connecticut, District 1
Votes: 113 votes missed (9.3 percent of 1213 total votes)
Rep. Rob Portman (R-OH)
Representing: Ohio, District 2
Votes: 14 votes missed (9.3 percent of 150 total votes)
9.2%
Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA)
Representing: California, District 33
Votes: 111 votes missed (9.2 percent of 1206 total votes)
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL)
Representing: Florida, District 19
Votes: 111 votes missed (9.2 percent of 1206 total votes)
9.1%
Rep. John Peterson (R-PA)
Representing: Pennsylvania, District 5
Votes: 110 votes missed (9.1 percent of 1213 total votes)
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL)
Representing: Illinois, District 1
Votes: 110 votes missed (9.1 percent of 1213 total votes)
8.9%
Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA)
Representing: California, District 24
Votes: 108 votes missed (8.9 percent of 1213 total votes)
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Representing: California, District 35
Votes: 107 votes missed (8.9 percent of 1206 total votes)
8.8%
Rep. William Clay (D-MO)
Representing: Missouri, District 1
Votes: 107 votes missed (8.8 percent of 1214 total votes)
8.7%
Rep. Bill Young (R-FL)
Representing: Florida, District 10
Votes: 105 votes missed (8.7 percent of 1206 total votes)
8.6%
Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ)
Representing: New Jersey, District 1
Votes: 104 votes missed (8.6 percent of 1214 total votes)
Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT)
Representing: Utah, District 3
Votes: 104 votes missed (8.6 percent of 1209 total votes)
Rep. Robert Ney (R-OH)
Representing: Ohio, District 18
Votes: 102 votes missed (8.6 percent of 1186 total votes)
8.4%
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA)
Representing: Pennsylvania, District 12
Votes: 102 votes missed (8.4 percent of 1213 total votes)
8.3%
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX)
Representing: Texas, District 22
Votes: 76 votes missed (8.3 percent of 921 total votes)
Rep. Charles Norwood (R-GA)
Representing: Georgia, District 9
Votes: 100 votes missed (8.3 percent of 1209 total votes)
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY)
Representing: New York, District 10
Votes: 100 votes missed (8.3 percent of 1206 total votes)
Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
Representing: Alaska, At Large
Votes: 100 votes missed (8.3 percent of 1206 total votes)
8.0%
Rep. Julia Carson (D-IN)
Representing: Indiana, District 7
Votes: 97 votes missed (8.0 percent of 1214 total votes)
7.9%
Rep. William Jenkins (R-TN)
Representing: Tennessee, District 1
Votes: 96 votes missed (7.9 percent of 1213 total votes)
7.8%
Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA)
Representing: Louisiana, District 2
Votes: 95 votes missed (7.8 percent of 1213 total votes)
7.6%
Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA)
Representing: California, District 36
Votes: 92 votes missed (7.6 percent of 1213 total votes)
7.5%
Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN)
Representing: Indiana, District 4
Votes: 91 votes missed (7.5 percent of 1214 total votes)
7.4%
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY)
Representing: New York, District 28
Votes: 89 votes missed (7.4 percent of 1206 total votes)
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI)
Representing: Michigan, District 1
Votes: 89 votes missed (7.4 percent of 1206 total votes)
7.3%
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
Representing: California, District 52
Votes: 89 votes missed (7.3 percent of 1213 total votes)
7.2%
Rep. Ed Case (D-HI)
Representing: Hawaii, District 2
Votes: 87 votes missed (7.2 percent of 1214 total votes)
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Representing: Florida, District 21
Votes: 87 votes missed (7.2 percent of 1214 total votes)
7.1%
Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA)
Representing: California, District 28
Votes: 86 votes missed (7.1 percent of 1214 total votes)
7.0%
Rep. Stephanie Jones (D-OH)
Representing: Ohio, District 11
Votes: 85 votes missed (7.0 percent of 1213 total votes)
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY)
Representing: New York, District 6
Votes: 85 votes missed (7.0 percent of 1213 total votes)
6.9%
Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL)
Representing: Florida, District 5
Votes: 84 votes missed (6.9 percent of 1214 total votes)
Rep. Randy 'Duke' Cunningham (R-CA)
Representing: California, District 50
Votes: 42 votes missed (6.9 percent of 608 total votes)
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
Representing: Texas, District 14
Votes: 84 votes missed (6.9 percent of 1213 total votes)
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)
Representing: Florida, District 18
Votes: 84 votes missed (6.9 percent of 1213 total votes)
6.8%
Rep. Donald Manzullo (R-IL)
Representing: Illinois, District 16
Votes: 83 votes missed (6.8 percent of 1213 total votes)
6.7%
Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
I am hoping she does not let her perky little ego get in the way of doing the reasonable thing and staying home caring for her husband, who is legitimately ill.
Wyoming has some finey young Republicans coming along and any of several would do a very credible job. and that is the opinion I conveyed to Mrs. Cubins office too.
Hahaha.. you just gotta love Ron Paul supporters. RP 08
Comment By Brodie Farquhar, 10-25-07A Thursday update: as of 2:20 p.m. EST, Rep. Cubin has missed five more votes, then voted "NO" twice in House votes to renew funding for SCHIP.
Her running tally is 469 missed votes of 1,007.
BUT, she is perky!
Comment By Amable, 10-25-07Well, Barb is toast and she knows it, so why should she pretend. There are several far more able DEMOCRATIC candidates waiting in the wings. It's about time we got rid of this loser from here in Wyoming. She's an absolute disgrace, mostly under the national radar because of her far, far worse political mate from Wyoming who is only a [gasp!] heartbeat away from becoming PRESIDENT! [the horror, the horror!]
Comment By wyowest, 10-26-07Hey Steve! Ron said he put your check in the mail!!
Comment By Don's Statistics, 10-26-07Hey Steve, You are correct that Sen Paul has over his entire career done reasonably well at attending votes. However, the point being made was about _this session_ of congress. Changing the goalposts can certainly change the view. Both sets of statistics have validity, it is more a question of interpretation. What I see in the pair is that Sen Paul has been a diligent public servant, but that he is merely mortal and is spending more of his allotted span this year campaigning (which he must if he plans on actually being president).
Comment By o'sapf, 10-26-07This article wasn't about Ron Paul in the slightest. I swear, you even mention Rep. Paul in passing and his acolytes go nuts. Anyway, it's perfectly reasonable to expect to miss some votes if one is running for President or Governor, so how this is a slam against Paul, I'll never know....No, this article was about Rep. Cubin and specifically this session of Congress. Try reading the article first. Sheesh!
Comment By Brodie Farquhar, 10-30-07UPDATE
Rep. Barbara Cubin voted 10 times Friday, leading up to a vote which upheld Bush's veto of SCHIP.
Monday, October 29, there were three House votes recorded, and Cubin missed all three.
That brings her running tally to 472 missed votes of 1,012 cast in this session, or 46.6 percent missed votes.
Update 10/30
Cubin has missed 480 of 1020 votes, having missed all votes on 10/29 and 30.
When will she vote next?
10/31
Cubin hasn't voted at all this week. Assuming that she keeps that up, she could conceivably hit the 50 percent mark if or when the House casts its 1,080th vote, because she will have missed 540 votes. That's only 55 votes away from today.
Well Cubins husband was rushed back to the hospital and is in ICU again. It as all but assured that she will be missing alot more votes.
Comment By Dan Rostad, 11-01-07Certainly Barbara Cubin is not the only "no show" to miss a lot of important votes. But by reading this article, you would think that the only guilty parties were Republicans.
Senator Tim Johnson on the other side of the rotunda, should have resigned because of his health concerns. But no one has given him this sort of scrutiny!
Maybe you (Brodie), should start one of those Keith Olbermann (MSNBC's smarmy so-called newscast "Count Down") lists of "Worse, Worser, Worst" Non-Voting offenders!
Certainly there's all sorts of people who have missed lots of votes, on both sides of the aisle, in both the House and the Senate. Some have had personal and family illness (some have even died), others have been absent because they're running for another office (the presidential candidates or Jindal for La. governor).
The Washington Post site, which tracks voting and non-voting, provides plenty of information about who is voting, or not, and for what. I think you'll find there's been plenty of interest and scrutiny in the respective states of politicians with extreme records of non-voting. Although Sen. Johnson is a next-door neighbor in South Dakota, he lies a bit beyond the New West focus, though his absence in the Senate is far more significant than Cubin's absence in the House.