Pelosi: House vote on new spending and proxy voting ‘hopefully’ next week

Published May 7, 2020 4:44pm ET



House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she’s aiming for a vote next week on a massive spending bill as well as a resolution to change the House rules and allow members to vote in place of absent fellow lawmakers.

“Our members want remote voting by proxy,” Pelosi told reporters Thursday. “If people can’t come because we don’t want them to come if someone has a fever, they should be able to be recorded.”

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