A court called into question on Tuesday a $1.7 trillion federal omnibus bill passed in 2022 after more than half of the House’s members voted remotely on the bill in accordance with then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) proxy voting rules.
A three-judge panel in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, comprising two Obama appointees and one Trump appointee, grilled attorneys for the state of Texas and the Justice Department during oral arguments over whether a quorum was present in the House on Dec. 22 of that year.
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