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End Proxy Voting.
If you don’t want to show up to vote on behalf of your constituents…
Find a new job.
If you don’t want to show up to vote on behalf of your constituents…
Find a new job.
It’s difficult for House Republicans to fight COVID-state when many jet off for fundraisers, signing proxy letters saying “I am physically unable to be present in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency”, handing their vote to another Congressman
Leadership must end this practice immediately. This and much more. #StandUpForAmerica #ArticleOne
At 10am the House Rules Cmte kicks off a hearing examining erosion of Congressional authority and the concentration of power on national security issues in the Executive Branch. Thank you @TomColeOK04 and @RepMcGovern for your bipartisan leadership on today’s hearing. #ArticleOne
Right now we have 33 ongoing “national emergencies” that give the president extraordinary powers. The president has the sole discretion to declare them and Congress is virtually powerless to stop them—Congress has never ended a national emergency declaration. #ArticleOne
The founders' constitutional checks on presidential war powers must be restored. The founders were deeply concerned about concentrating war powers in the presidency, warning it risked creating a king, who “often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it.” #ArticleOne
