In the normal course of things, of course Congress should hold a roll-call vote on a $2-trillion bill. But this isn’t the normal course of things. Insisting on a vote has, I think, only downside. It forces congressmen to travel at a time when we should all be staying home as much as possible. It delays relief. And it doesn’t put anyone on record who wasn’t already. To the extent there’s a good impulse beneath Thomas Massie’s stand, what it suggests is that Congress needs to allow for remote voting in exceptional circumstances.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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