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?

Quite the opposite, it's almost a requisite at this point

It's not cognitive dissonance if you can't remember what your values were to begin with.

Worked for Reagan

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

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

Granger never let a little thing like legality stop her. Why start now?

Overall, some has to sign off on her going into the facility. Assuming it's one of those locked in so they don't wander out type places. You would have to make that person some sort of mandatory reporter. Which I guess you could, but you would then essentialy require them to dig into a person's past, when currently thier job is just to ascertain the person's current mental state. Really this is the job of the legislature to track if she is showing up for work and declare her chair empty if not. Oregon has a rule that if you miss ten days of session in a row, you can't run again. This was to prevent walk outs. But it would also serve your purpose. But state legislatures aren't in session most of the time. So you would still get a big gap. But if it is not in session, the person's absence doesn't really matter.

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

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.

She is in Congress, not the Senate - so there’s a couple hundred more of them in general, and not all of them turn up to work every day.. so it’s not hard to lose one for 6 months and not notice.

Especially when they’re Republicans, since they do sweet fuck all most days anyway.

She apparently did make at least one appearance during the ~~sixth~~ six months for whatever that's worth (sourced from her Wikipedia page)

I'm pretty sure the most important among them have known but were colluding in hiding it from the public.

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

GOP Congresswoman

From what I see his name was Jake Li and he was attempting to safeguard endangered species against pesticides. So... His position is now vacant. Guessing Texas couldn't stand for it

He/they released this, so maybe I would have to more digging to gain further understanding.

https://texasfarmbureau.org/epa-releases-final-endangered-species-herbicide-strategy/

Edit: it appears he was "brought in" to that position when Biden entered office, and he is moving to the Department of Interior's fish and wildlife division. I suspect that they knew the upcoming and current cuts to the EPA would thin them out and the Fish and Wildlife department is less likely to be gone after, as that's who you get your hunting/fishing etc licenses from. I imagine the establishment that gives out licenses to shoot animals for fun, isn't likely to be targeted by Republicans

Realize that's she's a US house member, not a state legislature member. They were trying to defund the EPA in general by reducing salaries for individuals to $1 and it wasn't just Texas.

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

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

Only because she decided not to run again lol