This should surprise no one:
Ted Cruz came to Washington two-and-a-half years ago pledging to be the anti-senator. But he’s been more like the no-show senator.
The Texas Republican seriously lags most of his colleagues in attending hearings and casting votes in what has been a Senate career long on rhetoric and short on Senate business.
He’s skipped the vast majority of Armed Services Committee hearings, is below-average in attendance on his other major committees and ranks 97th during the first three months of this year in showing up for roll call votes on the Senate floor.
Politico
Here are the details:
*attended just 17 of 50 public Armed Services Committee hearings for which there are transcripts — the second-to-worst attendance record on the 26-member panel. *attended four of the 12 Judiciary Committee hearings during the previous 113th Congress
*participated in just three of the 25 full Commerce Committee hearings during the 113th Congress
*missed 21 of 135 roll call votes during the first three months of this year, the third-worst record among all senators
Cruz’s communications director, Amanda Carpenter, attributed the missed votes during the 113th Congress to Cruz’s trip to attend Nelson Mandela’s funeral and a Fort Hood memorial in Texas, along with delayed flights and other reasons.
You know what? He is such a gigantic asshole that it would not surprise me if his fellow Republicans don't tell him when meetings and votes are being held so they don't have to suffer his insufferable presence.