by jpitney | Nov 25, 2021 | Congress, House of Representatives
Devin Dwyer,Benjamin Siegel,Amanda Maile, and Elizabeth Thomas at ABC: Millions of American workers have returned to the office, and most children are back to in-person learning at schools, but dozens of members of the U.S. House of Representatives are still literally...
by jpitney | Jul 19, 2021 | Congress, House of Representatives
Nicholas Fandos at The New York Times: When the House revamped its rules in the early days of the pandemic to allow lawmakers to vote remotely, Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina was among 161 Republicans who sued to block the arrangement, arguing that it...
by jpitney | Mar 17, 2021 | Congress, Deliberation, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: When the proxy voting rule was renewed at the beginning of the current Congress, members have been reminded that reasons for absences must be limited to circumstances surrounding the pandemic (but then, what isn’t nowadays). However,...
by jpitney | May 16, 2020 | Congress, Coronavirus, House of Representatives
Katherine Tully-McManus at Roll Call: The coronavirus pandemic has prompted the House to allow lawmakers to vote by proxy, without physical presence at the Capitol. The significant, yet temporary, change to operations was not enacted during any other national crisis...
