Just like old times:
Missed Committee on Veterans Affairs meetings “Obama claimed that veterans committee was ‘one of my first priorities.’ He said, ‘One of my first priorities was obtaining a seat on the Veterans Committee…And the thing that I pledged when I was sworn in as the Senator was that if nothing else in the first couple of years in the Senate, I could make absolutely certain that there would have been a strong advocate in the United States Senate,’ at a Veterans Town Hall Meeting, May 23, 2005. “Obama has skipped 19 of 37 VA committee meetings in the 109th congress. Obama’s attendance record was the second worst of all Democrats on the committee. He attended just 18 of the committee’s 37 meetings in Washington D.C.,” SusanUnPC reported December 20, 2007, at No Quarter Blog.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barack_Obama:_U.S._presidential_election,_2008
Attended just under half the meetings. I guess he’s consistent.
If this was a pass-fail class, there’s no doubt that a 43% would be a FAIL. And that’s just on attendance.