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[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yep, meant John not Johnson. Mixed up the ghouls.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-agriculture-committee-fails-to-advance-farm-bill-with-mitch-mcconnell-s-absence/ar-AA29yKrI

It looks like someone voted for him, but on that particular committee it's not allowed, although other committees could allow it because the rules are made up by the members and leaders. In other words, they voted by proxy and then it was overruled by committee since Agriculture committee doesn't play those games.

https://legisletter.org/legislator/mitch-mcconnell-M000355/committees

I'm not sure the rules of every committee he's a part of, maybe a vote will eventually go through, but as I said in the last reply, this would only potentially apply to committee votes.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Huh, I hadn't heard about that, and I do mean not a word. The bigger committees like Ag tend to rule themselves in a straighter line because of the power involved -- everybody is watching everyone else very closely -- but this seems like a new low. At least the proxy votes got tossed. I also didn't know Tuberville was/is MIA.

Now I know. Thank you for the info and the links, I really appreciate you taking the time.

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