Nancy Mace Backed Ending Daylight Saving Time. Then She Didn't Show Up to Vote On It.

Thursday, October 29, 2026. Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, November 1, when the clocks fall back.

Nancy Mace was recorded Not Voting on the July 14 passage vote, and in her final year in Congress she missed a higher share of roll calls than all but two of the 426 members on the Clerk's record for every roll call.

Here, "didn't show up to vote" means the House Clerk's roll call has no vote from her: Not Voting. The ranking is by share of 2026 roll calls through Sept. 16 recorded Not Voting, among the 426 members who are on the Clerk's record for all 314 roll calls. The two members above her told the public why they were out. We do not say where she was on July 13 and 14, or why.

On the evening of March 7, 2026, the official account of Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), @RepNancyMace, posted: "Stop changing our clocks. Pick a time. Stick with it. The Sunshine Protection Act has been sitting in Congress waiting. Let's pass it and never speak of this again." (post) Daylight saving time began at 2 AM the next morning. The Sunshine Protection Act would keep daylight saving time all year, so the clocks stop switching.

On Tuesday, July 14, the House voted on that bill, H.R. 139. At 5:17 PM Eastern, on roll call 238, it passed 308 to 117. The House Clerk's official record lists Mace as Not Voting.

What the Clerk's record shows for July 13 to 15

• Mace is recorded Not Voting on all seven roll calls held on July 13 and 14: 234 (6:55 PM), 235 (7:02 PM), 236 (2:29 PM), 237 (2:38 PM), 238 (5:17 PM, the passage vote), 239 (5:25 PM) and 240 (5:32 PM).
• On July 15 the House held seven roll calls, 241 to 247, the first at 4:32 PM. She voted on all seven. The House held no roll call earlier that day.
• She is the only one of South Carolina's seven House members not recorded on passage. Reps. Biggs, Fry, Norman, Timmons and Wilson voted yes. Rep. Clyburn voted no.
• Five other members were also Not Voting on passage: Reps. James (R-MI), Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Dexter (D-OR), Fields (D-LA) and Leger Fernandez (D-NM).

What it did not change

Her absence did not change the result. The bill passed by 191 votes. It also did not make daylight saving time permanent. The bill has not passed the Senate, which returns on November 9 according to the S.C. Daily Gazette; the same report says it faces strong opposition from rural-state senators and those worried about dark winter school mornings, and that Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) opposes it. She did not oppose the bill: her March post called for it.

Her whole year

July 13 and 14 was not one bad afternoon. The Clerk's roll calls for 2026 run from roll 1 on January 6 to roll 314 on September 16, the last on its record. Counting every roll call, quorum calls included, Mace is recorded Not Voting on 103 of 314, or 32.8 percent. The median of the 426 members on the record for all 314 roll calls is 1.6 percent. Only two members missed a larger share: Reps. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ), 144 of 314, 45.9 percent, and Frederica Wilson (D-FL), 136 of 314, 43.3 percent.

Month, 2026	Not Voting	Share
January	3 of 48	6.2%
February	2 of 30	6.7%
March	9 of 30	30.0%
April	30 of 47	63.8%
May	11 of 36	30.6%
June	33 of 42	78.6%
July	13 of 50	26.0%
August	2 of 2	100%
September (through the 16th)	0 of 29	0%

By quarter: 13.0 percent, 59.2 percent and 18.5 percent. She lost the June 9 Republican primary for governor, finishing fifth, according to the AP. She is not on the November ballot, and her term ends at noon on January 3, 2027. Conceding, she said: "Well, my time is up at the end of this year." (News 19 WLTX)

The pattern is in the stretches. Six times, the Clerk has her Not Voting on seven or more roll calls in a row:

• 29 in a row, April 14 to April 23 (rolls 109 to 137).
• 24 in a row, June 4 to June 29 (rolls 206 to 229).
• 11 in a row on the afternoon of May 20 (rolls 176 to 186), 9 in a row on March 17 to 19 (rolls 88 to 96), 9 in a row on June 3 (rolls 192 to 200), and the 7 on July 13 and 14.

The House voted on 72 days. On 29 of them she was recorded on no roll call. From September 1 to 16 she voted on all 29.

The votes she missed

Of the 103, 40 were motions to suspend the rules, many passed with hundreds of votes. Others were on larger measures. We are not saying any result turned on her vote, and we do not know how she would have voted on any of them. A selection from the Clerk's record:

• January 15, roll 31: H.R. 2988, retirement savings bill, passage, 213 to 205.
• March 18, roll 95: H.J.Res. 139, a proposed constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget, failed, 211 to 207.
• April 30, roll 155: S. 4465, extending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act title VII authorities, passed, 261 to 111.
• May 20, roll 184: the PROTECT Kids Act, H.R. 2616, passage, 217 to 198, in the run of 11.
• June 3, roll 199: H.Con.Res. 86, a war powers resolution on Iran, passed, 215 to 208. July 23, roll 282: H.Con.Res. 89, another war powers resolution on Iran, passed, 214 to 208. She was recorded on five other war powers roll calls in 2026.
• June 4, roll 207: the Ukraine Support Act, H.R. 2913, passage, 226 to 195.
• June 11, roll 221: H.R. 9238, another surveillance extension, failed, 198 to 218.

On only two of the 72 days does the Clerk record her voting and then Not Voting later the same day. On April 30 she voted on 11 roll calls between 10:30 and 11:14 AM (rolls 144 to 154), and is Not Voting at 4:43 PM on S. 4465. On June 4 she voted on five roll calls from 4:43 to 6:08 PM (rolls 201 to 205), and is Not Voting at 6:15 PM (roll 206) and at 8:08 PM (roll 207), the Ukraine Support Act. We do not know why, and we are not saying it was deliberate.

Why: who explained

The two members above her explained. Rep. Kean was Not Voting on 142 roll calls in a row, from March 17 to June 29, and said when he returned on June 30 that he was treated for depression (NPR; AP News, June 30, 2026). Rep. Wilson confirmed in May that she had eye surgery (WPLG Local 10). Both told the public why. We are not comparing their reasons to hers.

For Mace, we found no reason from her for July 13 and 14, or for most of her other missed votes. Her posts and local press give a family reason for her longest stretch, 29 roll calls in a row from April 14 to April 23. The Clerk counts those roll calls, and so do we.

June was the campaign. The Clerk has her Not Voting on every roll call on June 3, then at 6:15 and 8:08 PM on June 4, then on every roll call from June 8 through June 11, and again from June 23 through June 29. Her accounts show a campaign under way: on June 8 a post said the primary was "TOMORROW", and on June 9 another said "I am holding a press conference at 10am". She finished fifth that day. We found no statement from her tying the campaign to the missed votes, and we are not tying them either.

She has addressed her attendance once that we found. On September 1, The Independent published a statement she gave it: "If you think the job starts and stops on the House floor voting a couple times a week, then you clearly don't know anything about the job. I hear from South Carolinians every single day who need help, and I make sure they get it. They come first." The same report says she wrote on X that day that she works seven days a week. That defends her work. It does not say why she missed any particular vote.

Her accounts on July 13 and 14

Her two accounts, @NancyMace and @RepNancyMace, published 28 posts, replies and quote posts on July 13 and 44 on July 14, from 8:03 AM to 10:40 PM. Times are from the Maceopedia X archive (UTC minus four hours). Examples beside the Clerk's times, all Eastern:

• Monday July 13: roll 234 at 6:55 PM; a reply with a video at 6:56 PM; roll 235 at 7:02 PM; a post at 7:06 PM.
• Tuesday July 14: roll 236 at 2:29 PM; roll 237 at 2:38 PM; a swearing-in video at 2:49 PM; another at 2:55 PM; roll 238 at 5:17 PM; roll 239 at 5:25 PM; a funding announcement at 5:30 PM; roll 240 at 5:32 PM. Between 2:29 and 5:32 PM the two accounts published 18 posts, replies and quote posts.

Several posts are stamped exactly on the hour or half hour (9 of 28 on July 13, 11 of 44 on July 14). That is consistent with scheduling software. It is only a possibility. We do not know who or what published any post, and staff may run these accounts. We found no post from either account about the July 14 vote, or about daylight saving time after March 7, in an archive that runs through October 23.

Context for July 13 and 14, and what we cannot say

Sen. Lindsey Graham had died, as Roll Call reported on July 12, and her accounts posted many tributes on those days. We found no source that ties her absence to his death. We also found no reason for her absence on July 13 and 14 on the public record, and no statement about it from her or her office. We do not say where she was or why. If a reason or a correction exists, we will publish it.

Opinion, built on the record above: she backed ending daylight saving time in public, and when the vote came, the Clerk has her as Not Voting.

Sources and method

• U.S. House Clerk roll call XML, rolls 1 to 314 of 2026: https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/index.asp
• Maceopedia X archive of @NancyMace and @RepNancyMace (latest October 23, 2026).
• The Independent, Sept. 1, 2026, as syndicated by AOL: https://www.aol.com/articles/nancy-mace-called-community-note-225407000.html
• WCIV, Live 5 News and the Post and Courier, April 15, 2026 (the family reason for April 14 to 23); The Citadel Today, April 20, 2026.
• NPR and AP, June 30, 2026 (Kean); WPLG Local 10, May 15, 2026 (Wilson).
• S.C. Daily Gazette, David Lightman, Oct. 28, 2026, as published by the Anderson Observer: https://www.andersonobserver.com/news/permanent-daily-saving-time-bill-unlikely-to-pass-this-year
• Wikipedia, Sunshine Protection Act (sponsor, 2022 Senate vote): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Protection_Act
• Roll Call, July 12, 2026; AP via PBS NewsHour, June 10, 2026; News 19 WLTX.
• Method: counts include every recorded roll call, quorum calls too. A member is compared only if the Clerk has a recorded entry for all 314 roll calls (426 members). Attendance is a count of the Clerk's Not Voting entries. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), whose record ends at roll 108 on March 27 (49 Not Voting of 108), is outside that group.

Correction and neutrality note: Maceopedia catalogs the public record and takes no position on why any member misses a vote. If Rep. Mace or her office supplies a reason or a correction, we will add it here. The film's narration is an AI-generated voice; every quoted word is hers.