Analysis: In the 82 votes cast in the Senate so far this year, Democrats have had an advantage among voting members of at least two votes only 30 percent of the time.
When Sen. Kyrsten Sinema left the Democratic Party to become an independent a few weeks later, the math still didn’t change: The Democrats would come into the 118th caucus with a two-vote majority.
It hasn’t worked out that way. In the 82 votes cast in the Senate so far this year, Democrats have had an advantage among voting members of at least two votes only 30 percent of the time. In part, it’s because the party’s caucus has seen two members, Sens. John Fetterman and Dianne Feinstein , missing dozens of votes for health reasons. But, in part, it’s because only 26 of the 51 members of the caucus have missed no votes at all.
Six votes had only one senator not casting a vote — Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. , who missed votes on Feb. 14 and 15 due to surgery for prostate cancer. Casey is one of 11 senators who has missed at least 10 votes. Since the Senate’s 22nd vote of the year, cast on Feb. 16, at least four senators have failed to cast a vote. After Fetterman and Feinstein, each of whom has missed at least 60 votes, the senator who’s missed the most votes is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell . He was hospitalized and then in rehabilitation followingThe absences have meant that in 57 of 82 votes cast — 70 percent of the time — the Democratic caucus’s advantage has been smaller than two votes.
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