“the “most truant” award goes to Rubio if we’re looking at this year only. If we examine career records, Republican rival Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas takes the crown.”
The majority of the votes Rubio’s skipped, came after April 13, when he announced his candidacy .
But beyond the field, neither Cruz or Rubio are the worst ever offenders — in fact, they didn’t even crack the top 100, according to a May 2015 Washington Post analysis.
President Barack Obama missed 24.2 percent of votes in his brief senate career. And that doesn’t even compare to the most truant senator of all time: Maryon Allen, D-Ala., who racked up a 43.5 percent absentee rate during her five-month stint in the Senate in 1978.”