Well, primary voters in New Jersey last night also finalized the race for one of the nation's

most competitive seats and one of the most unusual because the incumbent Republican, Congressman

Tom Kane Jr. hasn't been seen on the campaign trail or Capitol Hill for months.

As congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin reports, his absence raises broader questions.

Whoever else has come by Congressman Tom Cain's Capitol Hill office for the past three months, he was not one of them.

What do we know about where he is or not?

We really don't know anything.

Benjamin Hulak is the Washington correspondent for NJ's Spotlight.

Tell us the status of Congressman Kane right now.

I wish I could.

I'm not trying to be oblique, but he last voted in the House on March 5 and has not been seen in public since.

And the only thing I've gotten out of his office is that he is a personal

medical issue. This was Kane's last known day in Washington. He appeared at a committee hearing.

I heard my colleagues to support this legislation. Kane waited until late April to issue a

cryptic statement, writing that a doctor forecast full recovery very soon. I asked

House Speaker Mike Johnson about this today. As soon as he's ready to talk about that,

you're all going to breathe a sigh of relief and say that makes sense. What he's dealing with

is something very common and not a big, not a big thing. Keynes has been the longest but not the only absence this year.

Democrat Frederico Wilson, who's retiring, has missed a month of votes, eventually saying

she had eye surgery.

Republican Julia Letlow missed two weeks of votes as she campaigned for U.S. Senate.

These are 212.

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