Mike Gallagher actually said...

They are abusing proxy voting so they can have a longer weekend, right? Because it is an inconvenience to come to D.C.

This has almost assuredly been at least a contributing factor to the rise of raw partisanship we see in the Congress today, where toxicity a...

We haven't declared war. That is a constitutional requirement. We have not declared war.

Unfortunately, we seem to have fewer and fewer of these opportunities today, and proxy voting only exacerbates the situation.