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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse changes its rules during pandemic, allowing remote voting for the first time in its 231-year h
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-poised-to-adopt-historic-changes-allowing-remote-voting-during-pandemic/2020/05/15/b081d9f2-96ab-11ea-91d7-cf4423d47683_story.html
By Mike DeBonis
May 15, 2020 at 7:19 p.m. EDT
The House on Friday approved the most radical change to its rules in generations, allowing its members to cast committee and floor votes from afar the culmination of a months-long struggle to adapt the 231-year-old institution to the coronavirus pandemic.
Despite bipartisan frustrations with the viruss effect on the legislative process, the changes, which include temporarily authorizing remote committee work and proxy voting on the House floor, were adopted largely along party lines. The vote was 217 to 189.
Democratic leaders pushed forward with the changes this week after failing to come to terms in two weeks of negotiations with Republicans, who firmly opposed several key measures in the proposal.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and top Democrats said the changes were temporary and tailored to the current crisis which has made mass gatherings of lawmakers hazardous but necessary to ensure that the House fulfills its constitutional obligations.
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By Mike DeBonis
May 15, 2020 at 7:19 p.m. EDT
The House on Friday approved the most radical change to its rules in generations, allowing its members to cast committee and floor votes from afar the culmination of a months-long struggle to adapt the 231-year-old institution to the coronavirus pandemic.
Despite bipartisan frustrations with the viruss effect on the legislative process, the changes, which include temporarily authorizing remote committee work and proxy voting on the House floor, were adopted largely along party lines. The vote was 217 to 189.
Democratic leaders pushed forward with the changes this week after failing to come to terms in two weeks of negotiations with Republicans, who firmly opposed several key measures in the proposal.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and top Democrats said the changes were temporary and tailored to the current crisis which has made mass gatherings of lawmakers hazardous but necessary to ensure that the House fulfills its constitutional obligations.
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House changes its rules during pandemic, allowing remote voting for the first time in its 231-year h (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
May 2020
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Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)1. Must be a good idea.
Screwy Louie Gohmert was against it.
panader0
(25,816 posts)2. I saw his rant and thought the same thing.
Cha
(297,323 posts)4. Of course he was.
Cha
(297,323 posts)3. KR!