{"id":1031943,"date":"2021-11-19T12:28:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1031943"},"modified":"2021-11-19T12:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:28:36","slug":"after-record-breaking-mccarthy-speech-78-house-members-decide-not-to-show-up-for-build-back-better-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-record-breaking-mccarthy-speech-78-house-members-decide-not-to-show-up-for-build-back-better-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"After Record-Breaking McCarthy Speech, 78 House Members Decide Not To Show Up For Build Back Better Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-record-breaking-mccarthy-speech-78-house-members-decide-not-to-show-up-for-build-back-better-vote%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1031943&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"41.549851924975\">\n<p>Taking advantage of a COVID-19 rule, 78 members of the House of Representatives announced that they would not appear in person to vote on the Build Back Better Act.<\/p>\n<p>49 Republicans and 28 Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/ProxyLetter#ActiveProxies\">submitted<\/a> letters to the House clerk Thursday and Friday explaining that they would instruct proxies to vote for them, \u201cdue to the ongoing public health emergency.\u201d The House reconvened at 8:00 a.m., less than three hours after Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/19\/mccarthy-marathon-floor-speech-prevents-democrats-budget-passing\/\">concluded<\/a> the longest floor speech in chamber history. He spoke for eight hours and 32 minutes, breaking Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi\u2019s 2018 record by 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.0090497737557\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Whole lot of members voting by proxy today. Lines are backed up on both sides of the chamber as members wait to cast votes for others.<\/p>\n<p>Jet fumes\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/awtujg3Ens\">https:\/\/t.co\/awtujg3Ens<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicholaswu12\/status\/1461701415714406401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Proxy voting allows a present member to announce the vote of up to ten absent colleagues. Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/05\/16\/unconstitutional-abuse-power-liz-cheney-pelosi-proxy-voting-coronavirus\/\">introduced<\/a> the rule to the House in May 2020, arguing that members should be able to protect themselves from the COVID-19 pandemic by alerting a colleague to their planned vote on pieces of legislation. They renewed proxy voting in January 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/10\/kevin-mccarthy-sends-letter-nancy-pelosi-demanding-answers-reopen-capitol-house-rules\/\"><strong>(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: McCarthy Sent Letter To Pelosi Demanding Answers On Her Plan To Reopen The People\u2019s House)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite taking advantage of the provision themselves, House Republicans have been almost uniformly critical of proxy voting. When Pelosi introduced the rule, then-Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney blasted it as a \u201cblatant disregard of constitutional imperative, precedent and the rights of the minority.\u201d Republican leadership <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/05\/26\/house-republicans-file-lawsuit-against-pelosi-to-block-proxy-voting\/\">filed<\/a> a lawsuit to overturn the rule, and some members <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/05\/28\/ted-budd-congress-pay-vote-proxy\/\">introduced<\/a> a bill to withhold salary from lawmakers who use proxy voting.<\/p>\n<p>During his floor speech, McCarthy pledged to end the proxy voting system if he becomes Speaker in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re all thinking of running again, for those who win, no more proxy voting. You\u2019re going to have to show up to work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking advantage of a COVID-19 rule, 78 members of the House of Representatives announced that they would not appear in person to vote on the Build Back Better &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}