Allowing congressmen to vote remotely by proxy and participate in committee hearings digitally instead of in person have “crushed the ability to govern in a bipartisan fashion,” according to the top Republican on the committee that administers the House of Representatives. “These are single-handedly the worst policies that have been enacted, that have really crushed our ability to govern in a bipartisan fashion,” Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) told The Epoch Times Friday. The decision to allow members to be physically absent from the floor of the House, but cast votes by giving their proxy to a colleague, and to convene House committees to conduct official business virtually with some or all of the members not physically present, was made by the Democratic majority in March 2020 at the recommendation of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). The changes were part of a multitude of restrictions Pelosi and the Democratic …