Thursday, March 31, 2022

Nancy Pelosi Renews ‘Emergency’ Absentee Voting For Congress That’s Already Lasted Two Years; Pelosi Extends House Proxy Voting Despite COVID Pandemic Winding Down, and other C-Virus related stories

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Nancy Pelosi Renews ‘Emergency’ Absentee Voting For Congress That’s Already Lasted Two Years:
Pelosi unilaterally extended rules Monday allowing lawmakers elected to represent their constituents in Washington to instead stay home.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unilaterally extended rules Monday allowing lawmakers elected to represent their constituents in Washington vote from their homes instead of in Congress.
“Under the guise of a ‘public health emergency,’ Speaker Pelosi has once again extended her ‘show-up-if-convenient’ policy,” quipped House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in an exclusive statement to The Federalist. “This has nothing to do with science, but everything to do with Democrats insatiable obsession with control.”
In May 2020, Democrats in the lower chamber passed rules allowing members to vote while absent for the first time in the institution’s history, upending more than 200 years of precedent. The operation changes, objected to by Republicans who launched a lawsuit and appealed a court ruling to challenge their legitimacy, were quickly exploited by Democrats to spend chamber time campaigning or indulge in other works of self-promotion.
“I am unable to physically attend proceedings in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency,” explained Florida Democrat Rep. Charlie Crist in a letter to the House clerk days after rule changes went into effect delegating another Florida lawmaker to vote in his place.
Crist attended a SpaceX launch in his home state with fellow Florida Democrat Rep. Darren Soto on the same day. Soto also voted by proxy. --->READ MORE HERE
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Pelosi extends House proxy voting despite COVID pandemic winding down:
While tourists can now roam the halls of the Capitol and members of Congress can mingle mask-free, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has once again extended the COVID-imposed policy of proxy, or remote voting.
Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced on Monday that she would not require members to be physically present for votes until mid-May at the earliest, extending the order she put in place at the start of the 117th Congress in January 2021.
Pelosi cited a Monday letter from House Sergeant-at-Arms William J. Walker stating that the public health emergency “remains in effect.”
“I am hereby extending the ‘covered period’ designated on January 4, 2021 … until May 14, 2022,” Pelosi wrote in a “Dear Colleague” letter.
Instead of being present on the floor, members can continue to submit their votes on legislation and other matters through designated colleagues.
By contrast, the Senate has required in-person votes throughout the pandemic. --->READ MORE HERE
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