the ultimate disenfranchisement of voters? The lack of any power of any one Member of Congress.
I have no quarrel with Members that voted for it, my side or your side.
Proxy voting has been a disaster that has torn this institution apart, and I will continue to believe that because I have witnessed it, and ...
your Members squabbled for months on end over this process.
I think that is something that is really worth thinking about, and it probably has enriched the body.
Virtual legislation, I believe, has gone on long enough.
I have found that respect and affinity for one another is almost always enhanced from a positive face-to-face human interaction.
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...
Unfortunately, we seem to have fewer and fewer of these opportunities today, and proxy voting only exacerbates the situation.
We lose our ability to exercise our oversight responsibility with executive branch officials and private sector officials.
I think it is just about the truth. Because when you proxy vote...you have to sign a piece of paper that says, I am unable to physically att...