They can do exactly what they are supposed to do: Be there, listen to all of the dialogue, review documents, evaluate proposals, discuss the matter with other senators, in short BE THERE.

Being a senator is not a telecommuting job. There's a lot of action in the various rooms to include side-bar discussions with others and following opinion from home. If only the committee members needed to be there, there would be no need to have a vote involving ALL of the Senate.

If they can telecommute, then we can tear down the entire Senate office building and sell the land. There is a reason they have votes on the floor, and why all of the Senate is housed in one office building. These two guys are not superstars who don't have to follow what the rest of the Senate does. They both are in the lead for most-votes-missed, and that's not what they took an oath to do.

If you went looking for another job and had to go through a series of "interviews" around the country, would your current boss continue to pay you in spite of being always absent? Being a Senator is no different, and if there is a difference, please let me know, because that would give me reasaon to run for the job myself. I can be absent from work and collect my pay just as good as they can.....