Reps. Chip Roy and Mike Gallagher are calling out their Republican colleagues for using proxy voting rules in order to get out of voting while being in Orlando, Florida, for the Conservative Political Action Conference, standing in contrast to the predominant GOP stance against proxy voting.
“Democrats in particular are destroying the institution by doing this — we don’t meet, we don’t debate, we don’t amend. But even a number of my GOP colleagues are now complicit and have given in to the Democrats recklessness,” Roy, a Texas Republican, said in a statement on Monday, adding that it is an “unconstitutional attack on a functional Congress” and allows “members to avoid their responsibility to meet in D.C. to do their jobs.”
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