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Byrne joins lawsuit against Pelosi over proxy voting

Posted by Dale Liesch | May 27, 2020 | Latest, News | 0 |

U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne is joining Republican colleagues to sue Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi over a resolution that allows members to vote by proxy.

The suit argues that proxy voting, which allows members to have votes counted even when they are not present at the capitol, is unconstitutional, Byrne said in a statement.

“Speaker Pelosi’s attempt to allow Democrats to cast multiple ‘proxy’ votes for their colleagues is a blatant violation of the Constitution,” he said in the statement. “Under rules adopted last week, as few as 22 Democrats can claim a quorum and win a vote against all 197 Republicans.”

In the statement, Byrne went as far as to tell Democrats and Pelosi that if members of the party didn’t want to show up to vote she should hand the gavel over to GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

The suit was brought by McCarthy and 21 other House Republicans. The complaint alleges the resolution violates Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution. Byrne said as many as 58 Democrats have indicated they don’t wish to travel to Washington due to the COVID-19 pandemic and wish to have another member vote in their stead.

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Dale Liesch

Dale Liesch

Dale Liesch has been a reporter at Lagniappe since February 2014. He covers all aspects of the city of Mobile, including the mayor, City Council, the Mobile Housing Board of Commissioners, GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico and others. He studied journalism at The University of Alabama and graduated in 2007. He came to Lagniappe, after several years in the newspaper industry. He achieved the position of news editor at The Alexander City Outlook before moving to Virginia and then subsequently moving back a few years later. He has a number of Alabama and Virginia Press association awards to his name. He grew up in the wilderness of Baldwin County, among several different varieties of animals including: dogs, cats, ducks, chickens, a horse and an angry goat. He now lives in the Oakleigh neighborhood of Mobile with his wife, Hillary, and daughter, Joan. The family currently has no goats, angry or otherwise, but is ruled by the whims of two very energetic dogs.

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