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Speaker McCarthy ends pandemic-era proxy voting, forcing lawmakers to vote in person | Just The News

 

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday ended pandemic-era proxy voting, delivering on a promise to require chamber members to vote in person.

 

"No more proxy voting, McCarthy tweeted less than two weeks after being speaker. "Effective immediately, Members of Congress have to show up to work if they want their vote to count."

 

After the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, then-Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi instituted proxy voting, but the Senate never did. McCarthy and other GOP lawmakers unsuccessfully filed a lawsuit in May 2020 expressing constitutional concerns about members of Congress voting on behalf of other members.