“Despite his infirmities, Strom Thurmond showed up to work every day and did not miss a Senate vote in his final year, though no one is sure if a shouted 'Bingo!' counted as a yea or a nay.” IfsYearsMissingVoteFinalsDespiteSenateInfirmityBingo Author:Jon Stewart
“Democracy means that if this man,you Miss and I will be trapped on an island, we having a majority of votes will decide that you have to sleep with us. That's the Democracy. And with 2/3 votes we can even put that in the constitution.” IfsMenMeanSleepDemocracyMissingVoteConstitutionMajorityIslandsTrapped Author:Janusz Korwin-Mikke
“Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.” TurnsMediaMissingVoteSenateMainstreamMarcosMainstream Media Author:Kevin Drum
“I`m running for president because I want to change the direction of this country, and it will require me for the time being to miss some votes in the U.S.” WantCountryRunningPresidentMissingVote Author:Marco Rubio
“I posted a video a day for almost two months and was hardly sleeping, but I think it really pushed me to give music everything I had in me. I knew it was a chance I couldn't miss. The funny thing is I never saw my music video when it aired during the Super Bowl because as soon as I heard my song start I was in tears for the next 10 minutes! The most amazing thing that came out of all of this, however, was the support that had developed online. Without the people that came back day after day to vote for me, I'd be nowhere, and I really owe it all to them.” PeopleThinkingGivingTwoSongNextChanceSleepSupportSawsHeardMinutesMissingTearsMonthsVoteVideoOnlineBowlsFunny ThingsAmazing ThingsSuper BowlMost AmazingTwo MonthsVote For Me Author:Kina Grannis
“I had a great deal of trouble focusing. My two - I had three children, and the two that survived - boys - were very badly injured. I did my job. I didn't miss the votes. I showed up. But I just could hardly wait to get home.” ChildrenTwoHomeJobsThreeWaitingDealsBoysTroubleMissingVoteSurvivedInjured Author:Joe Biden
“We had early on women having the right to vote, then women in the workforce during WWII, just going back in history, and then we had the higher education of women, and then women more fully participating in the economy and in business, the professions, education, you name the subject... but the missing link has always been: is there quality, affordable healthcare for all women, regardless of what their family situation might be?” MightNamesQualitySituationEconomySubjectsMissingHigherVoteProfessionLinksHealthcareWwiiAffordableParticipatingHigher EducationRight To VoteWorkforce Author:Nancy Pelosi
“The big question that everyone is asking themselves, or what they should be asking themselves right now, is what role has the media played in not just missing a certain part of American society that wanted to vote for, say, Donald Trump, but what role has the media played in dehumanizing other people and helping create these conditions that people are so afraid of, say, Muslims and extremism?” PeopleHelpingMissingVoteExtremism Author:Peter van Agtmael