Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday unilaterally prolonged her unconstitutional proxy voting scheme once more resulting from COVID-19, regardless of Biden’s declaration that the pandemic is over.
That is pure lawlessness and unprecedented corruption.
In a letter addressed to the members of the Home of Representatives, Pelosi cited COVID and stated {that a} “public well being emergency is in impact” in her announcement extending proxy voting.
It will likely be prolonged till November 10, 2022.
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“In mild of the attached notification by the Sergeant-at-Arms, in session with the Workplace of Attending Doctor, {that a} public well being emergency is in impact resulting from a novel coronavirus, I’m hereby extending the “lined interval” designated on January 4, 2021, pursuant to part 3(s) of Home Decision 8, till November 10, 2022,” Pelosi stated in a press release.
Pelosi first started the scheme on Could 27, 2020.
Pelosi unilaterally prolonged her proxy voting scheme a number of occasions during the last couple of years. The proxy scheme was supposed to finish at present, September 26th.
Pelosi’s choice to increase proxy voting comes after President Joe Biden stated that the COVID pandemic was over.
Joe Biden declared the COVID pandemic is over in a sit-down interview with “60 Minutes” that aired final week.
This was Joe Biden’s first interview with an American outlet in additional than 7 months.
“The pandemic is over. We nonetheless have an issue with Covid. We’re nonetheless doing quite a lot of work on it. It’s – however the pandemic is over,” Biden stated to Scott Pelley.
WI Republican Consultant Mike Gallagher issued a press release Friday condemning the letter.
“Earlier this week, President Biden claimed that the pandemic was over. It appears everybody however Speaker Pelosi agrees. By extending proxy voting, Speaker Pelosi continues to permit members to forgo crucial element of their job – voting – and misinform their constituents within the course of. The day when Republicans take again the Home and eradicate this unconstitutional and unethical observe can’t come quickly sufficient.”
Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) additionally reacted to Pelosi’s choice to increase proxy voting in an op-ed for the New York Post.
“The Dedication to America champions insurance policies to revive voters’ confidence in Congress, beginning with ending Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s proxy-voting abuse of energy that allowed 90% of Home Democrats to receives a commission while not having to indicate up for work.”
Final yr, GOP Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy asked the US Supreme Court to overturn Speaker Pelosi’s Home proxy voting.
“Though the Structure permits Congress to write down its personal guidelines, these guidelines can not violate the Structure itself, together with the requirement to really assemble in individual. Since its adoption 14 months in the past, proxy voting has shattered 231 years of legislative precedent and shielded the bulk from substantive coverage debates and questions, successfully silencing the voices of tens of millions of People,” McCarthy wrote to the Supreme Courtroom justices.
The US Supreme Courtroom in January declined to hear GOP Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy’s problem to Speaker Pelosi’s proxy voting.
Congressman Greg Pence of Indiana’s Sixth Congressional District additionally demanded an finish to this unconstitutional proxy voting.
Watch the video beneath:
.@RepGregPence (R) calls for an finish to proxy voting after Joe Biden stated the “pandemic is over”:
“In another job in America, in case you don’t present up, you get fired.” pic.twitter.com/ZiLT8TSP4E
— J.W. Gibbons (@JoelWGibbonsV) September 20, 2022
