{"id":1597401,"date":"2022-08-09T16:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T20:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597401"},"modified":"2022-08-09T16:50:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T20:50:17","slug":"pelosi-prolongs-proxy-voting-as-covid-cases-trend-downward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-prolongs-proxy-voting-as-covid-cases-trend-downward\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Prolongs Proxy Voting as COVID Cases Trend Downward"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fpelosi-prolongs-proxy-voting-as-covid-cases-trend-downward%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=1597401&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<p>House members will be able to vote by proxy until the end of September, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) announced today, citing the COVID-19 pandemic even as cases, hospitalizations, and deaths continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#vaccinations_vacc-total-admin-rate-total\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trend downward<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Proxy voting, which means that one member of the House can cast a vote on behalf on an absent member, started in May 2020, and Pelosi has extended it multiple times, citing &#8220;the public health emergency due to the novel coronavirus.&#8221; The proxy-voting period would have ended Aug. 12 had Pelosi not extended it to Sept. 26.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic did not stop Democratic users of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/proxy-voting-house-dems-traveled-to-luxury-destinations-instead-of-showing-up-for-work\/\">proxy-voting system<\/a> from racking up travel expenses for their reelection campaigns. Pelosi&#8217;s fellow California Democrat, Rep. Eric Swalwell, last year voted by proxy 141 times while spending $45,000 at luxury hotels. Hawaii Democratic representative <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/this-democratic-congressman-doesnt-show-up-to-work-and-he-wont-say-why\/\">Kai Kahele<\/a>\u00a0voted in-person only 5 times between January and April, proxy-voting 120 times. Kansas Democratic representative\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/not-in-kansas-anymore-dem-rep-skips-votes-to-attend-ritzy-fundraisers\/\">Sharice Davids<\/a>\u00a0 cited &#8220;the ongoing public health emergency&#8221; to justify skipping in-person voting as she stayed in $1,000-per-night hotels for fundraisers.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate has required in-person voting throughout the pandemic. Senate Democrats last week <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/covid-test-scandal\/\">threw out<\/a> COVID safety protocols to ensure the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) has promised to end proxy voting if Republicans win control of the House in November. McCarthy said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanleader.gov\/leader-mccarthy-statement-on-petition-against-proxy-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> last year that proxy voting is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although the Constitution allows Congress to write its own rules, those rules cannot violate the Constitution itself, including the requirement to actually assemble in person,&#8221; McCarthy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House members will be able to vote by proxy until the end of September, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) announced today, citing the COVID-19 pandemic even as cases, hospitalizations, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"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-1597401","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\/1597401","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\/835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597401\/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=1597401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}