"We have got to get to a point where we look at this virus and learn how to deal with it as a risk-management issue because it is never going to be a zero-tolerance issue."
"I would provide 200 years of precedent before this pandemic began and before this majority decided to implement proxy voting for the first time ever in American history."
"Those who proxy vote and those who help them are doing a disservice to those here in D.C. trying to get things done."
"It is no longer about the pandemic, and this committee must end this practice."
"I think that was wrong."
"There was immense pressure on a lot of Members to say, well, you know, we are doing this tug of war about how we are going to run the place."
"I am not going to hand over my vote to someone else."
"What we have learned about proxy voting, Mr. Neguse, is that it has destroyed the fabric of the institution."
"I would just ask--and I know Chairman Scott would appreciate this as well--any help that you and USDA could do to influence the Democratic leadership in the House to bring this very strong bipartisan ..."
"If we would have taken the same disjointed approach back in the 1930s to electricity, I think some of our communities--probably the community I live in--would still be in the dark."
"Buddy, you are up."