Speaker Considering Remote Voting for House Members During Coronavirus Pandemic

Speaker Pelosi responds to a question about her reluctance to consider allowing House members to vote remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. She says there is a constitutional requirement that members vote in person, but that there are also security and technological challenges to making it possible. The speaker also says that Rules Committee Chair Jim McGovern is looking into the feasibility of voting remotely in a way that would allay those concerns. close