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Sounds reasonable to me!
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Can't vote from home.
Other senators have been "voting on his behalf" because apparently that's legal?
That is flatly incorrect for floor votes, only for committee business. While there are three different methods for the US Senate to take a vote, all three require the physical presence of the senator to do so. These rules have remained unchanged since 1798.
Unanimous consent is technically another, but it requires actual unanimous consent, so it is rarely used for anything of importance.
McConnell himself was one of the people being hardline about forbidding proxy/non-physical voting during covid, and the reason there is no absentee voting in the Senate when it came up again, which it does from time to time.
I never thought I'd be grateful, but I guess it's a good thing they never allowed the Herman Cain crowd to perform official acts.
Like most rules, it's almost certain that the fascists make an "unless WE want to" exception.
If the turtle's still alive, that is.