00:00Senator Bernie Sanders has served on the board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the last...
00:0518 years, but has failed to attend a single meeting, not one, in almost two weeks.
00:10Two decades.
00:11A fellow member of the board, Robert Garson, who is the president of the American...
00:15...Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, told The Post that people fly in from all over the country...
00:20...to attend these semi-annual meetings.
00:22They take place about two miles from the capital, but...
00:25...Sanders has apparently never showed.
00:28The council was established by Congress in 19...
00:30...and is made up of 55 members appointed by the president to serve five-year terms.
00:35Ten additional slots are filled by congressional leaders.
00:38Five from the House and five from the Senate.
00:40Several of the members who make up the board have signed a letter asking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer...
00:45...to replace Sanders.
00:46The letter cites not just his absenteeism, but also his repeated...
00:50...claims that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.
00:53Neither Schumer nor Sanders...
00:55...to respond to the post's request for comment.
00:57Now, to be fair here, while Sanders is the most...
01:00...a flagrant absentee, he's not the only truant member of the council.
01:04Republican Senator...
01:05Tim Scott of South Carolina has missed the last 13 meetings, and Democratic Senator...
01:10...Jackie Rosen of Nevada has attended just two of the last 10.
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