Both discrete factual assertions in the claim are fully supported by multiple independent, high-tier sources. First, Rep. Tom Kean Jr.'s last House vote was March 5, 2026 — confirmed by House Clerk voting records via GovTrack (Tier 1), NBC News, ABC News, CNN, CBS News, Fox News, the Washington Examiner, NOTUS, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, all independently. Second, as of the April 27, 2026 air date, GovTrack records show Kean had missed 52 of 52 roll call votes (100%) from March 17 onward, and multiple outlets confirm he had not appeared in Washington and colleagues could not reach him, directly corroborating the 'not been seen in Washington' element. The 'almost two months' characterization describes a 53-day gap (March 5 to April 27), approximately 7.5 weeks; this falls within ordinary rounding convention for 'almost two months,' and is validated by Fox News — publishing just three days after the broadcast — independently using the phrase 'nearly two months ago' to describe the identical interval. The name 'Tom Kaine' in the claim_text is a transcription artifact attributable to the pipeline, not a factual error by Maddow: Wikipedia confirms the surname 'Kean' is pronounced /keɪn/ (KAYN), phonetically identical to 'Kaine,' and the broadcast context unambiguously identifies the correct person (Republican congressman, NJ-07, swing seat, medical absence). Gate 1's MOSTLY_TRUE nomination was driven by the name misspelling and a mild concern about 'almost two months' precision; Gate 2 finds neither constitutes a material inaccuracy reversing the directional meaning of the claim — the name discrepancy is a pipeline artifact, and 53 days is reasonably characterized as 'almost two months' consistent with how multiple independent outlets described the same interval. The claim is TRUE.