{"id":51246,"date":"2022-08-09T11:54:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T18:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51246"},"modified":"2022-08-09T15:54:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T22:54:52","slug":"remote-voting-is-here-to-stay-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51246","title":{"rendered":"REMOTE VOTING IS HERE TO STAY, FOR NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker\u00a0Nancy Pelosi\u00a0(D-Calif.)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28673696.8113\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNTk0NDQxLXBlbG9zaS1leHRlbmRzLXJlbW90ZS12b3RpbmctZm9yLWhvdXNlLW1lbWJlcnMvP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB31a96740\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28673696.8113\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNTk0NDQxLXBlbG9zaS1leHRlbmRzLXJlbW90ZS12b3RpbmctZm9yLWhvdXNlLW1lbWJlcnMvP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB31a96740&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660170370915000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1UL2iOZW7ZtJrxfer3fOdA\">extended remote votin<\/a>g for House members on Tuesday, allowing lawmakers to vote by proxy until the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28673696.8113\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3BlYWtlci5nb3YvbmV3c3Jvb20vODkyMi0xP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB5fc61608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28673696.8113\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3BlYWtlci5nb3YvbmV3c3Jvb20vODkyMi0xP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB5fc61608&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660170370915000&amp;usg=AOvVaw12JYqI95zMHxi-iAzhv9va\">letter to colleagues<\/a>, Pelosi said House members will be permitted to vote by proxy through Sept. 26 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of the attached notification by the Sergeant-at-Arms, in consultation with the Office of Attending Physician, that a public health emergency is in effect due to a novel coronavirus, I am hereby extending the \u201ccovered period\u201d designated on January 4, 2021, pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, until September 26, 2022,\u201d Pelosi wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker\u00a0Nancy Pelosi\u00a0(D-Calif.)\u00a0extended remote voting for House&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51247,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51246\/revisions\/51247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}