House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Wednesday decried Democrats on the first day of proxy voting in the House of Representatives. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONDUCTS FIRST PROXY VOTE IN ITS 231-YEAR HISTORY“A Democrat from Maryland just voted seven times on legislation in Congress,” McCarthy tweeted Wednesday. The party-line vote allows for temporary proxy voting for 45 days for the first time in the chamber’s history. "For 231 years, never have we seen a proxy vote on the floor of the House," McCarthy said in a news conference with other Republicans Wednesday morning. “It's past time we modernized Congress' voting system to allow for remote voting during national emergencies.

Source: Fox News May 28, 2020 06:00 UTC