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Bernie Sanders: "Senate votes are what I'm paid to do."
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"U.S. senators running for president often miss a lot of Senate votes. (See Marco Rubio for the 2016 version and Barack Obama for the 2008 edition) But they’re not Bernie Sanders.
The Vermont senator has missed just 4 percent of Senate votes, compared to 42 percent for Rubio, MSNBC calculated – and Sanders says he doesn’t like to miss any.
“That’s kind of what I’m paid to do,” Sanders told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday. He added that he would miss votes, but said “I’m trying to miss as few as I possibly can.
“I am extraordinarily proud to represent my great state in the Senate,” Sanders said. “We’re working very hard on a number of issues. And while it is difficult and very time-consuming to be a full-time candidate and to be a full-time senator, that is at the moment what I’m trying to do.”
Indeed, the interview was taped just before Sanders left for the airport, Mitchell said, telling Sanders “I don’t want you to miss your plane because I know you’re heading back for some votes.”
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