WASHINGTON (AP) — “Congress" literally means to gather together. The virus' continuing spread is raising doubts among lawmakers and aides that Congress will reconvene in Washington as scheduled the week of April 20. Democrats are increasingly annoyed that President Donald Trump gets a daily
WASHINGTON — “Congress" literally means to gather together. But the coronavirus pandemic and election year politics are forcing lawmakers to consider ways of governing from afar, some for the first time in U.S. history.
Politics aside, there are life-and-death matters to legislate. After passing the nation's largest stimulus bill, Congress is now considering follow-up policy that would give more support for small businesses, medical personnel, unemployed Americans and efforts to slow the virus' spread. Committees of Congress are rethinking how to move legislation forward without holding old-fashioned “paper hearings,” in person. The Senate Armed Services committee, for example, said Tuesday that key hearings on the annual National Defense Authorization Act are being postponed while consideration is given to unspecified “alternative hearing processes.”
But discussions are still tentative, given concerns about hacking and the efficacy of dozens of garrulous politicians sharing a Zoom-like platform. Several House committees are looking to somehow hold hearings, for example, on the inspectors general Trump has effectively ousted. Proxy voting, or the practice of an absent member giving a present member authority to cast both votes, has precedent in Congress. Proxy voting in House committees was permitted until 1995. And it's still allowed in Senate committees.
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