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Thats sounding alarm bells on the hill. seeing more social distancing and mask wearing for the staff. remember, nancy pelosi does not have a big margin in the house, just a handful of votes, she doesnt have any room for error to lose voters if theyre possibly in quarantine, sick, if they cant travel, come to the house floor so making sure the infrastructure bill gets through is important in the considerations to make sure as many democrats can come to the floor as well. also this is an election ...

>> it doesnt because the way democrats operate is they convert a small victory into a bigger victory, the kind of momentum that we got the first thing done and now we need to get the second base and third base and home run. they need to do block and tackle before the midterms kick in seriously so whatever we can do to block and tackle in the meantime is smart for republicans but not for these guys because they are the useful idiots of the biden administration. laura: every louisiana and make you...

Whats the axios one big thing for this morning? >> todays one big thing is a new capitol alarm. house speaker nancy pelosi is getting to ponder whether to extend some of the covid rules and covid plans that were put in at the start of the pandemic on how the house operates. a key one is proxy voting. that allows members of the house to vote remotely not having to be physically in the chamber, that was at the start of the pandemic to space out members, to allow members who were possibly quarantin...

They want to continue proxy voting, the new goal becomes the normal. >> democrats across the board have no respect for democratic processes that are long-established, perfectly willing to use those processes will make and the benefit but when the political tables turn you see with the filibuster and so many issues the rules are not rules for them, they are merely opportunities when it is one way of obstacles when it is the other way so this is a party completely without principle and to debate t...

Jim jordan on oversight and judiciary. weve been through a lot of tough hearings today, a lot of hearings that were going to be similar to this and we know how to do this. we have credibility with the american people. and to strike them -- strike jim banks and jim jordan from this committee is just unacceptable. i think its important to recognize that every time speaker pelosi uses the word unprecedented, it happens to consolidate absolute power in the speakers office. it was unprecedented to bu...

I agree with everything thats been said. ive served for two years with jim jordan on oversight and judiciary. weve been through a lot of tough hearings together. a lot of hearings that would have been similar to this. we know how to do this. we have credibility with the american people. and to strike jim banks and jim jordan from this committee just unacceptable. i think its important to recognize that every time speaker pelosi uses the word "unprecedented," it happens to consolidate absolute po...

Promote weve been through a lo of tough hearings together. hearings that are going to be similar to this. i think its important to recognize every time speaker pelosi uses the word unprecedented, and happens to consolidate absolute power in the speakers office. it was unprecedented to make sure she got the gavel, it was unprecedented to put on the floor of the house, its unprecedented to have proxy voting and it is sure unprecedented for the majority leader to strike minority leaders for a commi...

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>> the capitol is far from fully operational even for lawmakers. committees conduct hearings on zoom. >> our armed forces committees some membersom are in their offices instead of coming into the hearing room, and there is no reason for that other than they want to do other things. >> theth house instituted proxy voting last year for members to vote remotely during the pandemic. democrats can only use a few members and prevail in a floor float. republicans claim that house speaker nancy pelosi h...

Essentially phone in their ballots. republicans view proxy voting as another example of a closed capitol. >> members need to be present if, come to the capitol and do their jobs. >> reporter: one democrat has an ailing mother in los angeles as concerns swell about the delta varian quaint. >> i can say personally i still have caregiver issues. well, there still may be days where i need to stay home and use the proxy. >> reporter: there are few sign zoom hearings are going away. security is still ...