Why couldn't they just have sent their votes by e-mail, or Skype or Zoom? Then, we could have had a recorded vote.
It wasn't secret ballot or anything.
Better....IF Continuity of Government is essential here, why aren’t they off at one of the secret bunkers??
“Yet, Massie threatened to gum up the works unless there was a recorded vote, which would have put the entire House at risk of exposure to this disease. D.C., Virginia, and Maryland are virtually on lockdown.”
I think you’ve got part of it. The part “unless there was a recorded vote” was the important part of the statement. As most votes are done by machine, it is not recorded for public view who votes what. Just that a vote was taken and a total number of conservatives and liberals voted for an idea, not what each voted.
Massie was trying to force them to vote so theirs was identified and they would be held responsible for it individually and would have to live up to their protection of the people they are using, the voters. This way if the spending of the trillions of dollars harms the economy, they can’t point the finger at Trump for sighing it as they were part of the determining gamble. Put up or shut up. They would have been identifiable as part of the decision making and would have to be held responsible for its failure, individually. And a roll call vote would have put them there. That’s why it took under a minute to get rid of that. If they were already there, what difference would the style of voting mean? Nothing. A roll call vote would have put them in line for any problems and they knew it.
rwood