From November 4, 2022 post
In a bombshell new report, CNN found that Congressman Ted Budd missed more votes “than any lawmaker who will be on the ballot” while campaigning “for a promotion to the Senate.”
CNN also called out Congressman Budd’s hypocrisy when it comes to voting proxy, noting Congressman Budd’s “negative view of proxy voting and even cosponsored legislation to withhold pay of any member who votes remotely,” but he voted “remotely several times at the end of September.”
“Congressman Budd does not deserve a promotion when he doesn’t even bother to show up to work,” said Dory MacMillan, Communications Director for Cheri Beasley.
Read the highlights here:
CNN: Why key House members skip many votes
By Manu Raju
November 3, 2022
As he has campaigned for a promotion to the Senate, Ted Budd has been frequently absent from his day job: A member of the US House.
The North Carolina Republican missed more votes than all but three House members since January 2021 – and more than any lawmaker who will be on the ballot in next Tuesday’s elections, according to an analysis by a nonpartisan watchdog group, the Moonlight Foundation. Budd missed 119 votes in this Congress, amounting to 13% of all votes over the last two years, most of which came this year as he has campaigned in North Carolina to fill the seat of the retiring Sen. Richard Burr.
Budd has a similar negative view of proxy voting and even cosponsored legislation to withhold pay of any member who votes remotely, with his campaign saying he “puts his money where his mouth is.” But on four occasions, he did file letters with the House clerk designating a member to vote by proxy on his behalf because of the Covid-19 pandemic, even voting remotely several times at the end of September.
Among the bills that Budd, for instance, missed include ones dealing with providing cybersecurity grants for schools, bolstering oversight on veterans programs, awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the National Hockey League’s first Black player and providing protections for whistleblowers.
The same report said that Budd missed more than 100 votes since running for Senate, “far above the median lifetime record of missed votes.”
Original source can be found here.
