That would put everyone voting for it out of a job.

We were going to implement one... but then we all got dementia.

She's a she. Doesn't have a chance.

Sorry, American CEO Musk will have eliminated that unnecessary office by then.

And really, it wasn't generating very good revenue for the shareholders any more. The board suggested going in a new direction.

Her aids were probably running the show for years. What happens with these congress critters is that they create a support network around themselves to do the real work while they campaign for the next election. It gets to the point that the congress member themselves becomes superfluous. If it goes on long they fall into dementia, but the aids don't want to start over again with someone new and they just tote their boss around from time to time like Weekend at Burnie's. It happened with Dianne Feinstein. It's probably happening with Mitch McConnell.

She is in Congress, not the Senate - so there’s a couple hundred more of them in general, and not all of them turn up to work every day.. so it’s not hard to lose one for 6 months and not notice.

Especially when they’re Republicans, since they do sweet fuck all most days anyway.

People from her office absolutely knew where she was, they just didn't bother telling anybody else.

She apparently did make at least one appearance during the sixth months for whatever that's worth (sourced from her Wikipedia page)

"Government is broken"

Realize that's she's a US house member, not a state legislature member. They were trying to defund the EPA in general by reducing salaries for individuals to $1 and it wasn't just Texas.

From what I see his name was Jake Li and he was attempting to safeguard endangered species against pesticides. So... His position is now vacant. Guessing Texas couldn't stand for it

He/they released this, so maybe I would have to more digging to gain further understanding.

https://texasfarmbureau.org/epa-releases-final-endangered-species-herbicide-strategy/

Edit: it appears he was "brought in" to that position when Biden entered office, and he is moving to the Department of Interior's fish and wildlife division. I suspect that they knew the upcoming and current cuts to the EPA would thin them out and the Fish and Wildlife department is less likely to be gone after, as that's who you get your hunting/fishing etc licenses from. I imagine the establishment that gives out licenses to shoot animals for fun, isn't likely to be targeted by Republicans

Gottem.

It's not cognitive dissonance if you can't remember what your values were to begin with.

Worked for Reagan

Quite the opposite, it's almost a requisite at this point

tbf a magic 8 ball would do a better job

I'm pretty sure the most important among them have known but were colluding in hiding it from the public.

They clearly cared a lot about her. She must be a very nice person.

Only because she decided not to run again lol

Of you read the article, she is already being replaced in January by a republican candidate.

She'll primary Trump, if such a concept exists in four years.

Oh, she was one of those.