[Brilliant]

Saw McCarthy trashing this by saying that she is just trying to augment her power with this. He did not really explain though why it would increase Pelosi’s power. Anyone care to explain?

[Alas Babylon!]

Well, in-person, a person can be argued with, even possible made a deal with. A Republican could persuade a democrat to not vote for a bill, by convincing him it would hurt his constituents or get a Republican to support some democrat's pork bill, etc., etc.

With proxy voting, there's none of that. Nanzi gets to say how they vote. Period.