Hawaii Rep has not voted in person since Jan

Hawaii Rep. Kai Kahele has not voted in person in the House since January, congressional voting statistics show.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the House of Representatives adopted temporary emergency rules permitting members to vote by proxy for the first time in its history. The measure was intended to reduce gathering in a tightly confined space amid the height of the pandemic before vaccines were available to the public. But the rules have yet to be lifted, and some members have turned to proxy voting for reasons other than illness or the risk of infection, and there is no mechanism to enforce limits on members’ reasons for voting by proxy.

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According to a data analysis by Honolulu Civil Beat, Kahele appears to be one such member. The freshmen Democrat from Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District has cast just five votes in person this year, all within three days in January. He cast the remaining 120 votes by proxy. According to the analysis, Kahele has voted by proxy mor …

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