A handful of Michigan Democrats used the House’s proxy voting policies to pawn off their vote so they could attend an event with President Biden at a Ford Motors plant in the Wolverine State.
Reps. Haley Stevens, D-Mich.; Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.; and Dan Kildee, D-Mich., each signed a document granting their vote by proxy to one of their Democratic colleagues in the House for the vote series on May 18, 2021.
Each of the documents cite the “ongoing public health emergency” due to the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason they gave their votes to their colleagues for proxy.
However, the reason…
