The house approves voting by proxy during coronavirus pandemic, a significant policy shift that will allow members to cast floor votes remotely for the first time in the chamber's 231-year history.
"It sends a terrible message," Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., the top Republican on the House Administration Committee, who was one of the members of the bipartisan group that sought to reach a compromise on how to reopen the Capitol, said in advance of the vote.
Davis worried that the change could be used against lawmakers, and that voting from home rather than traveling to"the swamp" would"become a badge of honor versus coming to Congress, doing exactly what has built this institution." House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Rep. Rodney Davis wear face masks while testifying to the House Rules Committee about the proposal to authorize remote voting by proxy in the House of Representatives.
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