Consider that Daines is absent *SO THAT* Murk can pair instead of voting nay.
It’s the kind of thing politicians do all the time. Kabuki. Everybody wins.
That "paired voting thing is an outright LIE" for the ill/uneducated.
Obama was the KING of voting "PRESENT", which was NOT "paired"!
The posters, here, used to know this stuff.
Today? Fewer and fewer posters appear to known much of antyhing.