And a god damn attendance record.

My kid's school told me flat out that if a kid misses too many school days, they will be left behind.

So these "politicians" get paid and don't even have to show up?

Okay. Make it happen then.

Kind of crazy how I get fired if I miss one day of work but senators can just not show up for weeks

The interns have been accepting all the bribes and spending it on beer.

As a rep, her only job is to vote. She hires staff to carry out other responsibilities.

Asking people with power to give up that power willingly almost never works, unfortunately.

That would put everyone voting for it out of a job.

Her aids were probably running the show for years. What happens with these congress critters is that they create a support network around themselves to do the real work while they campaign for the next election. It gets to the point that the congress member themselves becomes superfluous. If it goes on long enough, they fall into dementia, but the aids don't want to start over again with someone new, so they just tote their boss around from time to time like Weekend at Burnie's. It happened with Dianne Feinstein. It's probably happening with Mitch McConnell.

People from her office absolutely knew where she was, they just didn't bother telling anybody else.

She's a she. Doesn't have a chance.

Texas GOP sees this as an absolute win