On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) stated that remote voting for Congress is “now being actively debated.”
Coons said, “[A]fter 9/11, lots of work was done here to provide for Congress to meet and vote somewhere other than the Capitol…but they never came to agreement on emergency procedures that would allow the Senate or the House to vote remotely. That’s now being actively debated. I’ve reached out to the affected members of Congress and conveyed my concerns to them and their staff. But, frankly, the Capitol is almost empty right now. Almost all of my staff is working remotely. The rest of the Delaware Congressional delegation’s staff is working remotely. We are practicing social distancing and many are sheltering in place and teleworking.”
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