Another odd thing is................NO ONE is from DC...............DC does not having any votes.........EVERYONE in Congress...........is from somewhere............NOT Wash DC.................with traffic...........weather............family emmergencies, etc...........all that is just the Fog of War......Rob McNamera............Russian hackers.......my dad is probably laughing to himself............like if they knew just how far things are really fucked up........................

Wash DC............has zero votes..............so everyone in the center of DC is from somewhere NOT DC...........so they have to travel back to their home..............which might be as far as Hawaii................which is darn nearly half way around the world................literally in the middle of the Pacific..........Tokyo, Japan is as close to Hawaii as is Wash DC......


ProPublica has collected all of the Personal Explanations filed since 2007 — some 5,058 in all, covering 21,176 votes — and created a database that lets readers look up their representatives’ missed votes, as well as their explanations. These statements are by no means required — only one in six absences are explained — but they document a little-discussed aspect of the lives and work of lawmakers, and provide hints at the competing priorities and difficulties of a system that, to many, seems chronically dysfunctional.
The reasons lawmakers cite most for missing votes range from the mundane (travel delays, often due to weather, or remaining in their districts for job fairs) to more personal (the birth of a child or a graduation ceremony or illness). Lawmakers have missed more than 2,000 votes for medical reasons, and thousands more for personal and family reasons.