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When it comes to missing votes, Rep. Charles Rangel and Rep. Eliot Engel rank as most and third most truant among members of New York’s delegation to the House of Representatives, according to data compiled by the non-profit news outlet ProPublica.

From 2007 through this year, Mr. Rangel, whose district includes Marble Hill and a swath of the northwest Bronx, missed 11.4 percent of votes, or 787 out of 6,906. Mr. Engel, who represents the Bronx and Westchester, missed 8.4 percent of votes during the same time frame, or 787 times.

Neither official agreed to an interview for this article.

ProPublica’s vote tracker, viewable at www.projects.propublica.org/explanations, includes every explanation members of Congress provided for missed votes. Most often, they do not file an explanation at all.

“They don’t have to put them on the record and most of [the representatives] don’t,” explained Derek Willis, ProPublica’s news applications developer.

“If a person didn’t vote, there’s lots of reasons why they didn’t vote,” he added. “Our hope is to provide a little more light on what lawmakers are doing when they’re not voting.”

Out of four explanations Mr. Rangel filed for missed votes, he cited two instances when he voted incorrectly and another two reasons filed as “ambiguous or no reason.”

“Mr. Speaker, I want to indicate that I missed the last vote inadvertently; and had I been here, I would have voted in the affirmative,” he stated in a May 2011 filling on a bill about making a week in October National School Bus Safety Week. “

Out of 10 absences in which Mr. Engel filed an explanation, seven were for attending memorial services and three others were listed as ambiguous.

 “We’re not passing a judgment on people who don’t use [explanations],” said Mr. Willis. 

ProPublica listed Mr. Engel and Mr. Rangel as 36th and 67th most truant out of all 435 members of the House of Representatives in voting so far this year.

“Members don’t miss a lot of votes in general. They understand it’s an important thing,” Mr. Willis said.

ProPublica highlighted notable explanations for absences by members of Congress since 2007.

Once case appeared to show a change of heart about censuring Mr. Rangel over violating ethics rules in 2008.

Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, a Republican, said if he were given the chance, he would have changed his vote from “aye” to “present.”

“Members had no advance notice of the vote, and I did not familiarize myself with the substance of the motion as much as I would have liked,” Mr. Smith explained.