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

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

Worked for Reagan

Overall, some has to sign off on her going into the facility. Assuming it's one of those locked in so they don't wander out type places. You would have to make that person some sort of mandatory reporter. Which I guess you could, but you would then essentialy require them to dig into a person's past, when currently thier job is just to ascertain the person's current mental state. Really this is the job of the legislature to track if she is showing up for work and declare her chair empty if not. Oregon has a rule that if you miss ten days of session in a row, you can't run again. This was to prevent walk outs. But it would also serve your purpose. But state legislatures aren't in session most of the time. So you would still get a big gap. But if it is not in session, the person's absence doesn't really matter.

To be fair, much patient care happens without knowing what the patient actually does or did for a living. Sometimes it comes up organically, sometimes doctors, nurses, caregivers ask, and sometimes it never comes up.

If the patient is what we would call a “poor historian” which is a typical thing that is found with dementia care patients (do you know where you are right now? And they really don’t, so deep dives don’t occur past the how oriented to present reality is this patient, beyond those generic determination questions, when they fail.)

So let’s say she has no family. Shows up in hospital, doctors determine dementia, she’s stable and it’s time to go, physical and occupational therapy in conjunction with the MD determine a lack of safety to going home alone so it’s now decided for this patient to go to a care home, and she goes to a care home. Who then, inside the care home, says: oh, maybe I should call the Texas legislature about this random patient of whom I know nothing personal, never mind HIPAA.

How would they know? How could they talk if they did, given HIPAA?

Or there is a relative making decisions by phone who never thinks, oh, maybe I should call her boss and tell them. They just miss that part in the midst of everything else.

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.

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

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.

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 enough, they fall into dementia, but the aids don't want to start over again with someone new, so 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 apparently did make at least one appearance during the sixth six months for whatever that's worth (sourced from her Wikipedia page)

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.

And a god damn attendance record.

My kid's school told me flat out that if a kid misses too many school days, they will be left behind.

So these "politicians" get paid and don't even have to show up?

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

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.

Oh, she was one of those.

The interns have been accepting all the bribes and spending it on beer.

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

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

Only because she decided not to run again lol