Check the fucking date of the article. April 2nd.

The FUCKIGN REPUBLICANS have been throwing a SHIT FIT about it - it's not that Nancy and Chuck are against it completely - they are willing to look at it - but they concerned that it could be abused outside pandemic times.

Also she's been supportive of voice votes - which the fucking extremist Republicans have squashed.

They are going to hash out what Remote Voting is and if proxy voting will be allowed - but it's going to be as bitterly partisan as everything is now.


From TODAY:
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21230939/debate-around-remote-voting-in-house-explained

A push for proxy voting in the US House of Representatives during the age of coronavirus has been postponed — for now.

*After an outcry from Republicans,* <-look for this line in the next paragraph.

*After an outcry from Republicans,* House Speaker Nancy Pelosi canceled a planned Thursday vote on a resolution to allow remote voting-by-proxy proposed by House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern. Had the resolution passed, it would have been an unprecedented change — House rules say that members shall be present to vote — in keeping with the unprecedented challenges of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Instead, Pelosi announced Wednesday on a caucus phone call that a bipartisan group will consider ways to do remote voting and committee work, to allow Congress to social distance during the pandemic.

Proxy voting is the act of allowing members of Congress to cast votes on behalf of those who can’t be there in person, in this case because of Covid-19 concerns. While initially reluctant to entertain remote voting, Pelosi recently signaled openness to proxy voting in the midst of the pandemic.

But after a letter from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) asking for “a clear, safe and effective plan for reopening Congress,” Pelosi decided to wait longer for bipartisan consensus on a plan.

The House wasn’t planning to use proxy voting to pass an interim funding bill containing billions of dollars for small businesses slated for Thursday. While leadership is encouraging every member who can safely vote present to return to the Capitol Hill, they were initially hoping to separately pass the proxy-voting resolution as a contingency plan for future votes.

“We are asking every Member to return who can return. And we hope that that is a large number,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) told reporters on Tuesday, adding over half of its members are expected to be present for the vote. “We’re not ordering members to come back. We do expect sufficient members to come back so we can have a quorum.”