Colleen Hanabusa voted “aye,” but Mazie Hirono was in Rhode Island for the Netroots Nation conference, where she was a featured speaker.

Hirono campaign spokeswoman Carolyn Tanaka says a vote had not been scheduled for that Friday when Hirono was invited to the conference, or else “she would have been there” and “would have voted ‘yes’ to pass the budget.”

Tanaka said Hirono has voted “98 percent of the time,” which Tanaka said was a much stronger attendance record than Ed Case had when he was in Congress and ran against Sen. Dan Akaka in 2006.