A Democratic House member, Rep. Kai Kahele of Hawaii, is helping Republicans make their case against proxy voting.

As the long-distance voting practice approaches its second anniversary, Republicans have fresh ammunition in their long-standing arguments against it. That came in the form of a recent report Kahele has not voted in person since January — and that he has spent little, if any, time in Washington since as he weighs a bid for governor of the Aloha State.