Several Republican lawmakers have said they will not attend President Biden's Tuesday State of the Union address because of the mandated coronavirus testing before the speech.
As a result, he said the party should revisit its opposition to proxy voting.
“She s [Pelosi] changed the schedule so many times, so if we re trying to hold true to not proxy voting, people have to cancel their weekend plans, their home week, they have to cancel everything and this has happened four or five times, he said. Whereas they can do proxy voting, and it doesn t bother them.
“So I think we should relook at it, and once we re the majority we should ensure that we get rid of it but in the meantime, it s causing very little havoc on them and a lot of havoc on us and we need to have 100 percent voting in my view,” he said.
House Freedom Caucus members are going after Cheney, chair of the House Republican Conference, following an awkward moment during a press conference Wednesday with the House GOP leader. Just moments after McCarthy said he thought Trump should speak at the CPAC gathering this weekend in Florida, Cheney reiterated her position that she does not think the former president should have a place in the Republican Party because of his role in the deadly insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“That was one of the most outrageous statements, but it s consistent with at least four other statements she s made in the last few weeks. As you know, some of us in this group led a charge to remove Ms. Cheney as the chairwoman leader of the Republican conference. I do not believe she is able to carry that out any further,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said at a press conference on Thursday.