Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, participated in only 14 out of 85 votes during the lame-duck House session that followed her defeat by Democratic Rep.-elect Ben McAdams, the worst of any member of Utah’s federal delegation and near the bottom of the entire Congress.
According to the website GovTrack, Love missed 83.5 percent of House votes during November and December — well above her average 4.1 percent absent rate — putting her in the 98th percentile for nonparticipation during the lower chamber’s lame-duck session.
In a prepared statement, Love’s spokesman Richard Piatt said the congresswoman has had a 100 percent voting record in the current Congress — GovTrack’s records show Love missing a small number of votes at the beginning and end of 2017 — and has sacrificed a lot of family time while serving in D.