Members of congress practice social distancing as the House Rules Committee meets to consider a resolution authorizing remote voting by proxy in the House of Representatives during a public health emergency due to the coronavirus outbreak, and to formulate a rule on the newest coronavirus relief bill on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
Currently, the House can only hold informal briefings remotely, but unlike the Senate, they can't hold a formal hearing with a member or witness attending remotely. Now, the Chief Administrative Officer will designate software panels can use to conduct the hearings, or in addition, markups or depositions."I don't suggest these changes lightly, I still believe that we do our best work in person and side by side," Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern, D-Mass.
The chamber's regular business has largely came to a halt since mid-March, and has since only held a handful of votes related to coronavirus legislation. The chamber's meeting of the 430 members and support staff have proved particularly problematic as a result ofpulled the measure abruptly
If they can vote remotely, we should have the option to mail in our ballots. The compromising of election machines has been a problem that I never saw (or expected) this administration to properly address anyway, so what happened in 2016 is still to be reckoned with.
Further proving that they don't give a shit about the american people. THEY can stay at home and work remotely and still collect a paycheck but they can't pay us to stay at home or do vote by mail, all at the same time gutting the postal service so we actually can't. Fuck them.
Sifill_LDF Why not extend that courtesy to all the rest of America as well?
Sifill_LDF Oh but ,we can’t vote by mail ? This here is some bull.
Hurray!
They should not get payed just like the people they are supposed to be representing aren't getting payed if they aren't able to return to work. God save our country.
Sure, but they want US to be forced back into unsafe work environments. How ridiculous.
Pathetic
An attack on our democracy the Democrats are really going crazy if you don’t wanna represent us go home and resign
So why can’t Americans do the same?
Yeah