House Republicans Sue To Stop Historic Proxy Voting Plan Designed To Reduce Lawmakers Risk Of Getting Coronavirus
“It’s really important that we show up here to work at the Capitol to do our job as we’re calling on Americans all across the country to safely reopen,” U.S. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) told reporters Wednesday. “This is not constitutional. The Constitution makes it clear that we have to have a majority of members present for a quorum to do business.” The move complicates a dilemma House members had tried to solve: How to conduct business while reducing lawmakers’s risk of catching COVID-19....