{"id":1576075,"date":"2022-07-27T19:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T23:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576075"},"modified":"2022-07-27T19:19:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T23:19:05","slug":"gop-leader-mccarthy-vows-to-end-proxy-voting-on-the-very-first-day-of-a-republican-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-leader-mccarthy-vows-to-end-proxy-voting-on-the-very-first-day-of-a-republican-house\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Leader McCarthy Vows to End Proxy Voting \u2018On the Very First Day\u2019 of a Republican House"},"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%2Fgop-leader-mccarthy-vows-to-end-proxy-voting-on-the-very-first-day-of-a-republican-house%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=1576075&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--><p>U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) vowed\u00a0at the America First Agenda summit in Washington on July 26 that Republicans would seek to end the practice of proxy voting \u201con the very first day\u201d if the GOP takes back the House majority in midterm elections. The House had approved a measure at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020 that allowed\u00a0lawmakers to cast votes remotely through another colleague so that they didn\u2019t have to physically be inside the chamber.\u00a0It marked the first time that Congress members have been allowed to cast votes without being present. Under the rules laid out in H.Res. 965, sponsored by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), proxy voting was supposed to be in effect for only a limited time, since little was known about COVID-19 in 2020&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) vowed\u00a0at the America First Agenda summit in Washington on July 26 that Republicans would seek to end the practice of proxy voting \u201con the very first day\u201d if the GOP takes back the House majority in midterm elections. 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