House Republicans have filed a legal challenge that seeks to upend the chamber's historic proxy voting plan as members start casting remote votes.
Before the lawsuit was filed, Scalise sent notice to Republican members of the chamber that they should be at the Capitol and vote in person or submit their vote for the Congressional record but should not use the proxy voting system that would allow them to remain in their districts and submit their votes for another member to cast on their behalf.
"This is an unprecedented event but we've faced unprecedented events as a nation before," U.S. Representative Mike Johnson, who chairs the conservative Republican Study Committee, told Newsweek. "The clear and express language of the Constitution prohibits it," he said."It is by definition a deliberative body and to deliberate, you have to be present."
"I don't look at the Spanish Flu of 1918 as some sort of model of what we should do now," he said on the floor."People died."
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