Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell accused House Democrats of 'playing games with the Constitution' with their newly passed rules change that will allow members to vote remotely during the coronavirus pandemic
Washington Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday accused House Democrats of"playing games with the Constitution" with their newly passed rules change that will allow members to vote remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, a move the majority leader described as a"precedent-breaking remote voting scheme."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the rules change in the wake of the criticism, saying in a statement that"remote voting by proxy is fully consistent with the Constitution" and that McConnell's comments"are deliberately misleading."McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said that Democrats"jammed through" the rules change, which he said will let"one member cast 10 additional votes, actually one person, 11 votes.
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