Kevin McCarthy Ended Proxy Voting. It Could Cost the GOP.
The House implemented proxy voting in the 116th Congress as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's gone now, and it could be costly for the GOP.
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The House implemented proxy voting in the 116th Congress as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's gone now, and it could be costly for the GOP.
A majority of House members voted by proxy on a government funding bill on Friday, likely the highest number of absences since proxy voting began.
The far-right Georgia congresswoman has also voted on behalf of her Republican colleagues 135 times.
Insider identified several other lawmakers who have mostly voted remotely in the last two years, and they're all Democrats.
"I think I could say I voted more than any other member of the House in the last eight years," the Virginia Democrat told Insider.