A policy that was originally intended as a way to keep members of Congress working in a pandemic has, ironically, turned into a way for them to avoid showing up in Washington for work.
finding that more than half of the U.S. workforce is “quiet quitting”—barely meeting the minimum expectations for a job while psychologically detaching from their work—it appears the House may not be immune.
“In general, it’s really bad for the institution,” said Matt Glassman, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Government Affairs Institute. Proxy voting, he said, takes members out of the policymaking process. Of the 77 lawmakers who missed more than 100 votes in person, 61 of them are Democrats. Of the top 10 proxy voters, eight are Democrats.
Some Democrats, like Rep. Dean Phillips , agree that COVID-era proxy voting has reached its expiration date. In August 2021, during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Reps. Seth Moulton and Peter Meijer made an unauthorized trip to the country. Both voted by proxy, citing COVID, when they were in Kabul. Moulton is 43rd on the proxy voting list, having done so 144 times.
Although that majority has accomplished a great deal legislatively, proxy voting has made for some strange optics in their happiest moments. When House Democrats passed the so-called Inflation Reduction Act in August—a capstone achievement for the party that came after a year of painstaking negotiation—a third of members voted remotely, making the in-town celebrations far more muted than they might have otherwise been.
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