The rest of us have to work for a living, but Presidential candidate Dick Gephardt is collecting a congressional salary while simultaneously skipping nearly every House vote this session.
A HUMAN EVENTS vote analysis shows that the Missouri Congressman, who is running for President, has skipped out on the last 49 House votes. Ironically, his last vote, on May 23, was a vote against adjourning the House for the Memorial Day weekend.
The House has taken 153 votes since April 10, and Gephardt has bothered to show up for exactly six of them (96% absent). Three of his six votes took place May 23, immediately after The Hill, in its May 20 issue, noted Gephardt's chronic absenteeism (back then he was only 85% absent, they reported).
Gephardt's total absentee rating for 2003 now stands at 87.3%, since he has taken 35 of 275 House votes.
Read:
-The Hill: Gephardt Skips 85% of House Votes
-Missourinet: Bush Leads Gephardt in Missouri in New Poll
Joel P. Weckerly contributed to this report.
