Senator Kay Hagan (D., N.C.) appears to have excused herself from an extended Congressional hearing on the Ebola virus last month, but not before taking time to get her photo taken with Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantley.
The Senate Appropriations Committee posted photos of Hagan and Brantley sitting in the committee waiting room on its Flickr page, along with others photos for the actual hearing, which lasted nearly three hours and featured testimony from top officials from the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health.
Video of the hearing, which took place on Tuesday, September 16, is available here. Hagan does not appear to have attended, or participated in any way, while Senator Richard Burr (R., N.C) was present for almost the entirety of the hearing.
Hagan seems to be making a habit of missing important meetings. She has come under fire for skipping a classified briefing in February on the rise of ISIS in Iraq in order to attend a fundraiser in Manhattan.