Mystery grows around absent congressman facing tough reelection

The case of the missing GOP congressman could spell disaster for Mike Johnson

What do you call a congressman who doesn’t vote, doesn’t post on social media or take photos, but does play the stock market? Some kind of congressional vampire? Alas, no. In the case of mysteriously AWOL New Jersey Rep. Thomas Kean Jr., the twists and turns keep coming. While Kean Jr.’s chief of staff Dan Scharfenberger told the New York Times on Friday that he’s recovering from a long illness, there’s reason to believe that the congressman’s a…

'Creepy and weird': Missing Republican's curiously chipper newsletter draws fire

A consultant for Rep. Tom Kean Jr. — the New Jersey Republican who has been missing from Congress for 74 days — decided Monday that the real scandal isn't his boss's 2 1/2-month disappearance, it's the journalist asking about it.Kean last cast a vote in the House on March 5 and has since missed 68 v...

Tom Kean Sr. on Tom Kean Jr.: “He hasn’t been able to do his full job to any degree for some months”

It has now been 11 weeks since Congressman Tom Kean Jr. last voted and was seen in person or on camera. In an interview with NJ.com, his father Tom Kean Sr. confessed that the New Jersey Congressman has not been working on behalf of his constituents “for some months,” stated that his son would still not return for multiple weeks, and raised further questions about whether or not Kean Jr. intends to run for reelection. Here are three must-read ex…

Swing-seat Republican sidelined by ‘serious’ illness misses 88 votes as majority hangs by thread

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An absent House lawmaker is expected to miss several more weeks of work after vanishing from Capitol Hill and the campaign trail due to an undisclosed illness. Rep. Tom Kean Jr., R-N.J., has not voted in more than two months as House Republicans’ slim majority races to approve must-pass legislation ahead of the midterm elections. His father, former Gov. Tom Kean Sr., R-N.J., says his son may not return…

Swing-seat Republican sidelined by 'serious' illness misses 88 votes as majority hangs by thread

An absent House lawmaker is expected to miss several more weeks of work after vanishing from Capitol Hill and the campaign trail due to an undisclosed illness.Rep. Tom Kean Jr., R-N.J., has not voted in more than two months as House Republicans' slim majority races to approve must-pass legislation ahead of the midterm elections.His father, former Gov. Tom Kean Sr., R-N.J., says his son may not return to Washington until June or later as he recov…

Tom Kean Jr. has been missing from Congress for 2 months, as questions continue

Questions continue to swirl around the prolonged absence of U.S. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. as the New Jersey Republican entered his third month away from Congress, with no clear return date from what staffers say is a personal medical matter and a competitive re-election race looming in the background.