Worst attendance — House
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Worst attendance — Senate
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Best attendance — overall
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Members of Congress are paid to vote. Most cast roll-call votes 95%+ of the time. A few — for reasons ranging from campaign travel to family medical leave to indifference — miss substantially more.
This page ranks every incumbent by attendance percentage in the 119th Congress, with reasons listed where publicly disclosed.
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Yes. There is no penalty in law for missing votes; the only consequence is political. Some members publicly explain absences (medical, military service, family emergency); some do not.
Common reasons: presidential or other campaign travel, illness, family emergency, military reserve duty, official Congressional travel. Less defensible: scheduling conflicts and political absenteeism.
Sometimes. Challengers cite high absence rates in attack ads. The connection to actual electoral outcomes is mixed.