House Lawmakers Weigh Voting By Proxy To Maintain Social Distancing
Members are pushing to change the tradition of in-person voting because of coronavirus. Remote voting would take time to set up; it would be faster to have one member vote on behalf of many others.
As the impacts of coronavirus spread among its own membership, House lawmakers are weighing alternatives to a longtime tradition to in-person voting as they near a potential, major vote on a new emergency bill.
Among the top rolled out this week suggests that maybe the preferred route if members want to skip out on in-person votes.
