The New Republic71%
Representative Has Gone Missing From Work 57%
By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling59%
7/2/2026, 6:32:20 PM
Topics: Government, Elections
BS Summary: This article contains 29 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Fundamental Attribution Error, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 37.3% saturation with 136 hits. Analysis detected 1,158 faulty-reasoning hits from 365 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54% and a BS Rank of 57% (9,169 of 20,882 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 56.10% of the article peer group.
Yet another Republican lawmaker is missing in action.
Florida Representative Neal Dunn’s office told Punchbowl News Thursday that he won’t be voting unless Republican leadership says they need him.
Donald Trump put the 73-year-old lawmaker on blast in March, prematurely revealing at a White House event that Dunn was suffering from a terminal heart problem and would be “dead by June.”
“Congressman Neal Dunn of Florida had had some real health challenges, and it was very serious, and had had a pretty grim diagnosis,” House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted at the event at Trump’s behest.
“I mentioned it to the president.
I said, ‘Congressman Dunn is a real champion and a patriot because he’s still coming to work, and if others got this diagnosis, they would be apt to go home and retire.’
“What was the diagnosis?”
Trump pressed.
“It was—I mean, I think it was a terminal diagnosis,” Johnson said.
“He would be dead by June,” Trump interjected, before Johnson confessed, “That wasn’t public.”
Dunn has not been on Capitol Hill since June 11 and has so far missed 11 votes, according to his voting record.
Nonetheless, he has not announced any plans to truncate his time in office.
In January, Dunn released a statement indicating that he would not seek reelection, though the former Army surgeon is apparently not planning to formally bow out before the end of his term.
Dunn has a bad track record with missing votes.
Since he entered the House in January 2017, Dunn has missed 246 of 4,992 roll call votes.
That means the septuagenarian has missed at least 4.9 percent of the votes that took place during his term, according to an analysis by Govtrack.us, which is much more than the median of 2.1 percent missed by other representatives.
But he’s not the only Republican who’s been missing in action.
Representative Tom Kean Jr. was absent from Congress since March 5, sparking a Washington brouhaha that lasted until Tuesday, when he suddenly appeared before the House floor to share that his inexplicable multimonth absence was due to depression.
Notably, Kean has voted repeatedly to block paid sick leave for his constituents.
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