Enlarge / The Capitol is big, but not big enough to give every member of Congress a whole lot of breathing room. (credit: Patrick Foto | Getty Images )
Congress has a problem. Well, many problems, if you ask almost any American, but specifically—right now in the middle of a pandemic—it has a problem with physical space for social distancing.
The House of Representatives has 435 members, and while the House Chamber is big enough to seat them all, it’s definitely not large enough for every one of them to have a 6-foot radius of empty space around them. So Congress is looking to do what tens of millions of us are now currently doing: working remotely. But first, representatives have to agree on a new rule that lets them do so.
To that end, the House on Friday adopted Resolution 965, which will permit remote voting in the House for the first time since our legislative branch took form in 1789.
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Source: Ars Technica – Members of Congress can vote from home for now—but not by using tech