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Rep. Thomas Kean

Republican · New Jersey's 7th District · in the House since 2023

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Rep. Thomas Kean has missed 144 of 323 roll-call votes this Congress, 45% of them, 28.8 times as many as the typical House member (1.5%).

Missed this Congress
45%
144 of 323 · #1 of 430
Typical House member
1.5%
the chamber's median
Career
45%
144 of 323 since 2026
Longest absence
34 days
Mar 17 – Jun 29, 2026 · 142 votes

What they show up for, and what they skip

Thomas Kean shows up most for other votes (missed 20%) and spending bills (25%), but misses far more votes on agriculture and food (100%) and votes on environment (71%).

By kind of vote

Share missed · the gray tick is their overall 45%

Suspension votes (75) 55%
Final passage (84) 49%
Procedural votes (106) 44%
Amendments (41) 27%
Spending bills (12) 25%
Other votes (5) 20%

By topic

From the Library of Congress subject of each bill · topics with 10+ votes

Agriculture and food (13) 100%
Environment (14) 71%
Crime and policing (10) 60%
Public lands (10) 60%
Foreign affairs (15) 53%
Finance (12) 50%
Congress itself (76) 43%
Government operations (14) 36%

Days of the week: missed 90% of Friday votes and 23% of Tuesday votes.

Votes cast and missed, month by month

Each bar is one month of roll calls in the 119th Congress. Shaded months have a reason on record.

Jan 2026: 48 voted, 0 missed; Feb 2026: 28 voted, 2 missed; Mar 2026: 9 voted, 21 missed; Apr 2026: 0 voted, 47 missed; May 2026: 0 voted, 36 missed; Jun 2026: 4 voted, 38 missed; Jul 2026: 50 voted, 0 missed; Aug 2026: 2 voted, 0 missed; Sep 2026: 29 voted, 0 missed; Oct 2026: 0 voted, 0 missed; Nov 2026: 9 voted, 0 missed J2026 F M A M J J A S O N
  • Voted (yes, no or present)
  • Missed
  • Reason on record

Year by year

Share of votes missed. The gray tick is the typical House member.

2026 45%

Earlier years are still loading.

Missed days in 2026

Each square is a day the House held votes. Darker means more votes missed that day.

  • Jan 6: voted every time
  • Jan 7: voted every time
  • Jan 8: voted every time
  • Jan 9: voted every time
  • Jan 12: voted every time
  • Jan 13: voted every time
  • Jan 14: voted every time
  • Jan 15: voted every time
  • Jan 20: voted every time
  • Jan 21: voted every time
  • Jan 22: voted every time
  • Feb 2: voted every time
  • Feb 3: voted every time
  • Feb 4: voted every time
  • Feb 9: missed 2 of 2
  • Feb 10: voted every time
  • Feb 11: voted every time
  • Feb 12: voted every time
  • Feb 24: voted every time
  • Feb 25: voted every time
  • Mar 4: voted every time
  • Mar 5: voted every time
  • Mar 17: missed 4 of 4
  • Mar 18: missed 4 of 4
  • Mar 19: missed 1 of 1
  • Mar 24: missed 1 of 1
  • Mar 25: missed 4 of 4
  • Mar 26: missed 3 of 3
  • Mar 27: missed 4 of 4
  • Apr 14: missed 2 of 2
  • Apr 15: missed 3 of 3
  • Apr 16: missed 8 of 8
  • Apr 17: missed 3 of 3
  • Apr 20: missed 2 of 2
  • Apr 21: missed 3 of 3
  • Apr 22: missed 7 of 7
  • Apr 23: missed 1 of 1
  • Apr 27: missed 2 of 2
  • Apr 29: missed 4 of 4
  • Apr 30: missed 12 of 12
  • May 12: missed 2 of 2
  • May 13: missed 10 of 10
  • May 14: missed 6 of 6
  • May 15: missed 2 of 2
  • May 20: missed 11 of 11
  • May 21: missed 5 of 5
  • Jun 3: missed 9 of 9
  • Jun 4: missed 7 of 7
  • Jun 8: missed 2 of 2
  • Jun 9: missed 7 of 7
  • Jun 10: missed 4 of 4
  • Jun 11: missed 2 of 2
  • Jun 23: missed 2 of 2
  • Jun 24: missed 2 of 2
  • Jun 25: missed 1 of 1
  • Jun 29: missed 2 of 2
  • Jun 30: voted every time
  • Jul 13: voted every time
  • Jul 14: voted every time
  • Jul 15: voted every time
  • Jul 16: voted every time
  • Jul 20: voted every time
  • Jul 21: voted every time
  • Jul 22: voted every time
  • Jul 23: voted every time
  • Aug 31: voted every time
  • Sep 1: voted every time
  • Sep 2: voted every time
  • Sep 3: voted every time
  • Sep 14: voted every time
  • Sep 15: voted every time
  • Sep 16: voted every time
  • Nov 9: voted every time
  • Nov 10: voted every time
  • Nov 11: voted every time
  • Nov 12: voted every time

Voted every time Missed every vote

Reasons on record

What the member or their office said, with the source. Absences with no reason given are listed as such.

  1. No reason given 144 votes on 35 days

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Key votes missed

Passage votes, nominations and other votes that decided something.
DateVoteResultMargin
Jun 29, 2026 TRIA Program Reauthorization Act
H.R. 7128 · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · roll call 229
Passed 373–15
Jun 29, 2026 KIDS Act
H.R. 7757 · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · roll call 228
Passed 267–117
Jun 25, 2026 Financial Exploitation Prevention Act
H.R. 2478 · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · roll call 227
Passed 414–2
Jun 24, 2026 Small Business Technological Advancement Act
H.R. 915 · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · roll call 226
Passed 414–4
Jun 24, 2026 Small Business Lending Fraud Prevention Act
H.R. 7401 · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass · roll call 225
Passed 415–0
Jun 23, 2026 Housing for the 21st Century Act
H.R. 6644 · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in Senate Adt to House Adt to Senate Adt · roll call 224
Passed 358–32
Jun 23, 2026 Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act
S. 629 · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass · roll call 223
Passed 368–19
Jun 11, 2026 Condemning actors seeking to defraud the U.S. Government, and expressing the sense of the House of Representat…
H.Res. 1335 · On Agreeing to the Resolution · roll call 222
Passed 235–177
Jun 11, 2026 To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Su…
H.R. 9238 · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass · roll call 221
Failed 198–218
Jun 10, 2026 Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act
H.R. 8464 · On Passage · roll call 220
Passed 218–200
Jun 10, 2026 Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act
H.R. 8312 · On Passage · roll call 218
Passed 240–181
Jun 10, 2026 No Aid for Ghost Students Act
H.R. 7892 · On Passage · roll call 217
Passed 249–172
Jun 9, 2026 Faster Labor Contracts Act
H.R. 5408 · On Passage · roll call 216
Passed 230–193
Jun 9, 2026 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5408) to accelerate workplace time-to-contract under the Nationa…
H.Res. 1140 · On Agreeing to the Resolution · roll call 215
Passed 221–201
Jun 9, 2026 Secure America Act
S. 2 · On Passage · roll call 214
Passed 214–212

Missed 144 votes in all; only the key ones are listed here.

Missed votes that could have changed the result

Votes Thomas Kean missed where the members who didn't vote outnumbered the margin. "Their side lost" means most of their party voted on the losing side.

  • Absences could have flipped it Their side lost Apr 30, 2026 · House #144
    On Agreeing to the Amendment
    On Agreeing to the Amendment · H.R. 7567

    It failed 210–216 with 7 Republicans and 2 Democrats not voting. The losing side was 7 votes short and 7 of its members didn't vote: with them it would have passed 217–216. But the winning side's absences offset that: with everyone there, the result would have stood (217–218).

  • Absences could have flipped it Jun 4, 2026 · House #205
    Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2027
    On Passage · H.R. 8646

    It passed 213–210 with 4 Republicans and 3 Democrats not voting. The losing side was 3 votes short and 3 of its members didn't vote: with them it would have failed 213–213. But the winning side's absences offset that: with everyone there, the result would have stood (217–213).

  • Absences could have flipped it Jun 4, 2026 · House #203
    Waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from…
    On Agreeing to the Resolution · H.Res. 1336

    It passed 213–211 with 4 Republicans and 2 Democrats not voting. The losing side was 2 votes short and 2 of its members didn't vote: with them it would have failed 213–213. But the winning side's absences offset that: with everyone there, the result would have stood (217–213).

  • Absences could have flipped it Jun 4, 2026 · House #202
    Waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from…
    On Ordering the Previous Question · H.Res. 1336

    It passed 212–210 with 6 Republicans and 2 Democrats not voting. The losing side was 2 votes short and 2 of its members didn't vote: with them it would have failed 212–212. But the winning side's absences offset that: with everyone there, the result would have stood (218–212).

  • Absences could have flipped it Jun 3, 2026 · House #195
    Providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 8646) Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, an…
    On Agreeing to the Resolution · H.Res. 1333

    It passed 211–207 with 7 Republicans and 5 Democrats not voting. The losing side was 4 votes short and 5 of its members didn't vote: with them it would have failed 211–212. But the winning side's absences offset that: with everyone there, the result would have stood (218–212).

  • Absences could have flipped it Jun 3, 2026 · House #194
    Providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 8646) Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, an…
    On Ordering the Previous Question · H.Res. 1333

    It passed 208–207 with 10 Republicans and 5 Democrats not voting. The losing side was one vote short and 5 of its members didn't vote: with them it would have failed 208–212. But the winning side's absences offset that: with everyone there, the result would have stood (218–212).

  • Absences could have flipped it May 21, 2026 · House #189
    Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
    On Motion to Recommit · H.R. 1041

    It failed 208–210 with 8 Republicans and 4 Democrats not voting. The losing side was 3 votes short and 4 of its members didn't vote: with them it would have passed 212–210. But the winning side's absences offset that: with everyone there, the result would have stood (212–218).

  • Absences could have flipped it May 21, 2026 · House #187
    Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Act
    On Motion to Recommit · H.R. 1329

    It failed 209–209 with 9 Republicans and 3 Democrats not voting. The losing side was one vote short and 3 of its members didn't vote: with them it would have passed 212–209. But the winning side's absences offset that: with everyone there, the result would have stood (212–218).

  • Absences could have flipped it May 20, 2026 · House #186
    Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1041) Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act; providing for consideratio…
    On Agreeing to the Resolution · H.Res. 1300

    It passed 208–207 with 10 Republicans and 5 Democrats not voting. The losing side was one vote short and 5 of its members didn't vote: with them it would have failed 208–212. But the winning side's absences offset that: with everyone there, the result would have stood (218–212).

  • Absences could have flipped it May 20, 2026 · House #185
    Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1041) Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act; providing for consideratio…
    On Ordering the Previous Question · H.Res. 1300

    It passed 209–207 with 9 Republicans and 5 Democrats not voting. The losing side was 2 votes short and 5 of its members didn't vote: with them it would have failed 209–212. But the winning side's absences offset that: with everyone there, the result would have stood (218–212).

How that compares

This member
45%
House median
1.5%
Republicans in the House
1.9%
New Jersey delegation
4.8%

Data: the House Clerk and senate.gov, updated with every roll call. All members →

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