Republican lawmakers who oppose a new rule permitting proxy voting accused a Democrat of skipping out on the House to attend a rocket launch.

Rep. Charlie Crist was among more than 70 Democrats absent from the House this week who assigned another lawmaker to vote for them by proxy.

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