With members of the House rushing from their home districts back to Washington, DC, to vote for the first time in weeks, concerns about travel in the middle of the pandemic have altered many of their typical patterns
Many members, not wanting to catch coronavirus at airports or on airplanes, drove themselves.Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee drove alone for eight hours from Michigan to DC, a spokesman told CNN."There's a lot of work ahead of us and a lot more to do. I'm going to Washington now to do one piece of it," he said in a video posted to his Twitter account, while stopped at a gas station in Youngstown, Ohio along the way.Democratic Rep.
— Rep. Debbie Dingell April 23, 2020 By CNN's count, it appeared that most members came back to Washington to vote Thursday, with over 390 members voting. But, there are still major concerns from many members about traveling back to Washington in the middle of a pandemic and many are continuing to push for remote or proxy voting.
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