"I really have to take issue with the fact that somehow this is the least productive Congress."
"I suggest to you that this comment about proxy voting only presumes the outcome would be different if, in fact, we precluded somebody from voting if they were sick if, per chance, they were absent."
"Should we have said to them, Coloradans (sic), by act of happenstance, you will not be represented. I think not."
"We have adapted by ending the practice of voting by group and reducing voting times on the floor."
"Other measures such as the greater adoption of remote working tools ought to remain in place, in my opinion, Mr. Chairman, because we have seen how they help make the House more accountable, transpare..."
"I continue to believe that what we did at a very challenging time saved lives here."
"I think all of us are called upon to do that, and that is why this is an important and fundamental conversation that we are having today."
"The Supreme Court has been very emphatic actually that the values and the principles of the Constitution must be applied by us through the prism of new and existing technology."
"The principle there the court said in a 7-to-1 decision... was that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy embodied in the Fourth Amendment."
"the people's voice was enabled to be heard by virtue of the proxy voting that we developed."
"I think it is me, okay. I live closer to the Capitol than any other Member of Congress."
"I think that Mr. Gallagher has put his finger on the question we need to deal with, which is, have there been abuses of this system?"