Staton doesn't show at the office because he is 1) bored, 2) asleep 3) shooting the breeze with his compatriots out at the Hansen Building 4) home watching 
reruns of Branded 5) lazy 6) on a stake out looking for a 72 ounce steak, t0 take out, 7) getting mani-pedi on SE 122nd and Foster, 8) getting his gun polished or 9) watching reruns of Fury, the tory of a horse and a boy who loves him...

I doubt he's immersing himself  in any real substantive policy stuff. This is a guy who is basically taking up space...