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Everybody’s favorite Speaker of the House has extended the ability of House members to vote by proxy until late September due to the “public health emergency” (read: “We might have to show up at our jobs!)<\/p>\n
\u201cIn light of the attached<\/a> notification by the Sergeant-at-Arms, in consultation with the Office of Attending Physician, that a public health emergency is in effect due to a novel coronavirus, I am hereby extending the \u201ccovered period\u201d designated on January 4, 2021, pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, until September 26, 2022,\u201d Pelosi wrote.<\/p>\n
A host of representatives were caught misusing the pandemic rule to go on vacation or to campaign for reelection while Congress was in session. Some of the lawmakers have used proxy votes several hundred times since its been enacted, including Pelosi\u2019s fellow Californian, Eric Swalwell, according<\/a> to the Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nNational Review<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nSwallowswell must be a bit of a slow learner…the above chart shows the top proxy users in 2021 and he isn’t listed. Guess he is making up for lost time. He’ll have to go some – Rep. Wilson (D, FL) lead the pack with 400+ last year of the 5,658 proxy requests filed. I may as well have left the D off… ALL the top abusers were Ds. Guess the Rs just don’t party the same – see some examples:<\/div>\n\nDemocratic New York Representative Mondaire Jones was spotted partying in the French Riviera for a wedding, potentially proxy voting on 17 pieces of legislation, according<\/a> to the New York Post<\/em>.<\/div>\n\nCarolyn Maloney, another Democratic New York Representative was caught using the pandemic excuse to proxy vote on the \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban, instead using her time to campaign for reelection, the New York Post<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Democratic Ohio Representative Tim Ryan also used the pandemic rule to campaign for reelection, according<\/a> to Spectrum News 1.<\/p>\n
Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, used a proxy vote to go sit in his car right outside of Congress to do an online interview about his new book, the Los Angeles Times<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Five members of Georgia\u2019s delegation also used a proxy vote in January, citing the pandemic, but were seen attending an even\u00a0 (sic) with President Joe Biden instead, according to the Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n