The $2 trillion omnibus just passed WITHOUT A QUORUM.
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Correct. Quorum requires PRESENCE. Not virtually, not via proxy. Congressmen should be getting their asses to work and doing their jobs.
That's YOU defining what presence means. They defined presence as participating on zoom or whatever online thing they use. I don't have a problem with this, they're logged in with a secure system and vote that way, and they publish the results of who voted. If there were any fuckery, anyone who voted differently would freak out. I have three people that work for me that I have never met in person and we only talk via phone, they're my three best workers who produce the most and cost the less. It's a new world.
The words of the Constitution have meaning as intended when written. And when they were written, quorum meant members present and present meant physically PRESENT. Just because the world changes, that doesn't change the original intent of the words as written. If Congress wants to go ZoOMiNg then they can propose an amendment to the Constitution, to be considered by the states and the people.
So we should still have slaves?
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Nice try, but the plain, original intent of the words in the 13th Amendment explicitly abolished slavery (except when used as punishment).
The Constitution has been altered (sometimes for good, and sadly other times not so good) because it can be and at times should be. But to change the meaning of any part of the words in the document, it must be changed.
If Congress wants to ZoOm, pass a Amendment, get it signed, and ratified.