The Florida Republican, who resigned his House seat during his short-lived bid for attorney general, has publicly flirted with the idea of showing up in Congress on Friday.

Member-elect Matt Gaetz of Florida was absent from roll call because he resigned before the end of the last Congress. In November, President-elect Donald Trump chose Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general but Gaetz,

Members of the 119th Congress cheered former Representative Matt Gaetz's absence from the session on Friday, applauding as his resignation letter was read into the record. The formality, in which acting House Clerk Kevin McCumber announced Gaetz’s intention not to return to Congress,