More than 50 Republicans who once joined a lawsuit claiming the House’s pandemic-era proxy voting was unconstitutional have themselves voted by proxy this year, remotely without showing up.
, D-Calif., manage her party’s narrow majority by making it less likely Democrats will miss votes. Pelosi called the GOP’s failed lawsuit a “sad stunt” that threatened to “recklessly endanger the health of colleagues” and congressional workers.
Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, cast proxy votes while taking paternity leave after the birth of his second child in Spring 2021. Around the same time, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, voted from home after emergency eye surgery. Cawthorn criticized proxy voting in July 2020, tweeting, “Leaders show up no matter how uncertain the times are. The Democrats are cowards for hiding and not showing up to work.”
Roybal-Allard’s nearly 77-year-old husband is immunocompromised, a statement provided by an aide said. It said the 80-year old congresswoman was in her Washington office this month but did not vote in the House chamber because of the recent omicron surge and the House’s abandonment of its requirement for mask-wearing there.
Kahele’s office provided an email exchange in which his aides were advised by House Ethics Committee staff that outside employment was allowed if it didn’t interfere with his congressional duties and his earnings met outside income limits.
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