Rep. Gwen Moore
Gwen Sophia MooreCOVID is a wild card while Pelosi faces complicated speaker voting on Sunday. (D-Wis.), Who announced that he tested positive for COVID-19 on December 28, is scheduled to be present at the Capitol on Sunday for the speaker’s vote.
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that those who test positive or have been exposed to the virus quarantine for at least seven to 10 days, Moore’s office told Punchbowl News that she “worked with doctors and can travel with safety”.
Asked later by a reporter if she had tested negative, Moore acknowledged, “I didn’t get a negative test”, but said she was released by Capitol’s assistant physician, Brian Monahan, to be on Capitol Hill and was quarantined for two weeks. .
Your decision to participate in the vote comes as a spokesperson Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi The governor of Kentucky calls McConnell’s house vandalism ‘unacceptable’ Pelosi, McConnell’s houses vandalized while the K stimulus check bill is not approved Georgia keeps the Senate agenda in limbo MORE (D-Calif.) Faces a razor-thin edge to retain your hammer.
The Chamber allowed proxy voting during last year’s votes and will do so again at this Congress, but not until a package of rules is passed in a vote after the presidential vote.
Monahan also approved the use of an acrylic wrapper in the visitor’s gallery in the town hall to allow three lawmakers who were supposed to be quarantined to vote on Sunday. But the case has no cover and is not completely sealed.
Republicans criticized Pelosi for Moore appearing on camera.
“It seems that @P SpeakerPelosi’s proxy voting and remote hearing measures are essential only when your leadership position is not at stake,” Rep. Bruce Westerman
Bruce Eugene WestermanOvernight Energy: Trump EPA finalizes air rule that critics say favor polluters | Zinke, in official and unofficial portraits, returns to the Interior on horseback | Vilsack gets a lukewarm response when Biden Agriculture chooses among those seeking retired USDA bipartisan senators to present tree conservation bill as a climate solution ENERGY OF THE NIGHT: Westerman nominated as top Republican on the Chamber’s Natural Resources Committee | McMorris Rodgers wins race for GOP first place in Energy and Commerce | EPA joins conservative social network Parler MORE (R-Ark.) Tweeted.
“Well, that would be wrong. I mean, we have two members who have COVID and we keep them at home. I couldn’t imagine that she [Pelosi] would bring someone here who could cause problems for people ”, minority leader Kevin McCarthy
Kevin Owen McCarthyCongress overrides Trump’s veto for the first time. Biden asks the nation to “unite, heal and rebuild in 2021”. NJ Republican presses for a seat in Ways and Means a year after switching parties MORE (R-Calif.) I told The Hill.
Cristina Marcos contributed. Updated at 14h38