Just seven Republicans joined most Democrats to use remote voting in the House when it began two years ago as the pandemic erupted
Across the aisle, Rep. Kai Kahele, D-Hawaii, has used proxy votes on 120 of this year's 125 House roll calls. His congressional website says he is “an active commercial airline pilot with Hawaiian Airlines,” flying domestic and international trips on Airbus A330 widebody aircraft.
The House approved proxy voting on a near party-line vote in May 2020, as COVID-19 began upending everyone's activities. In discordant views on the deadly virus, Democrats called the move a way to keep Congress functioning safely, while Republicans disparaged it as an abandonment of its work. McCarthy has repeatedly expressed a desire to end proxy voting should Republicans win the House majority in November’s elections, saying it’s time for lawmakers “to show up to work.”
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, now running for state attorney general, has cast 61 proxy votes this year, the most among Republicans who'd joined McCarthy's lawsuit. Aides did not return messages seeking comment.Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, took paternity leave after the birth of his second child in Spring 2021. No. 3 House GOP leader Elise Stefanik of New York was at a Florida fundraising event with former President Donald Trump in January.
Cawthorn has voted 57 times by proxy this year, the AP's count showed. He did so 69 times in 2021, according to Brookings, his first year in Congress. An aide declined to respond to questions.
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