{"id":18075,"date":"2026-01-22T23:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wesley-hunt-dodges-questions-on-spotty-voting-record\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:16:58","slug":"wesley-hunt-dodges-questions-on-spotty-voting-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wesley-hunt-dodges-questions-on-spotty-voting-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesley Hunt dodges questions on spotty voting record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Wesley Hunt refused to answer repeated questions about his spotty voting record Thursday after he appeared in the Capitol for the first time in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Republican has missed dozens of votes this Congress as he seeks the Senate seat now held by fellow Republican John Cornyn. His last recorded vote before providing the decisive vote Thursday to kill a measure constraining President Donald Trump\u2019s war powers in Venezuela was on Jan. 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cY\u2019all be safe, y\u2019all be safe \u2014 the storm is coming,\u201d he said, referring to the upcoming winter weather, as reporters peppered him with questions about why he has missed so many House votes.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day a Hunt spokesperson said he was on his way back to Washington at Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s request after being told by another, unnamed GOP leader \u201cthat his presence in D.C. was not needed this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Wesley Hunt refused to answer repeated questions about his spotty voting record Thursday after he appeared in the Capitol for the first time in two weeks. The Texas Republican has missed dozens of votes this Congress as he seeks the Senate seat now held by fellow Republican John Cornyn. His last recorded vote before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}