"Virtual legislation, I believe, has gone on long enough."
"We have an obligation to defend the Constitution."
"There is no question it is obvious and inarguable, to the point of being self-evident now, that people are abusing proxy voting."
"I think there are a lot of lessons to be learned there, and she did it the right way."
"Productivity by a handful is not the people's House."
"I don't think it is constitutional for us to cast these votes."
"That is a very big statement. That is a debatable statement, one we ought to be debating."
"We break down the human interactions when we blow up the whole point of us coming together as Congress."
"I believe the Constitution clearly believed that we should be--or articulated we should be present."
"My constituents wake up every morning and go to work on the farm to feed our families, in the classroom to teach our children, into the police station to serve and protect our communities, or into the..."
"I think if you read the text of the Constitution, words like 'meeting,' 'assemble,' 'attendance,' 'present,' 'absent,' 'recess,' 'sitting,' 'seat,' it clearly requires a Member of Congress to be actua..."