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On the recordJuly 13, 2022
I yield to the gentleman from California. Mr. McCARTHY. Madam Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman yielding. I would like to speed this up, and with all due respect, not to yell anything else, but if we did eliminate proxies, we could go to 2-minute votes. Now, with all due respect, the proxies were put in because of the pandemic. It was put in during the pandemic. You no longer have that from any procedure here. The proxies will take longer than 5 minutes. If we want to be able to----
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland
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Jul 13, 2022

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