Rep. Jim McGovern could not turn a deaf ear to the moves of Rep. Virginia Foxx, after her opposition to allowing new parents to vote by proxy. After that, the House blocked a procedural measure that would have made it possible to change the already existing rules. In her speech, Foxx emphasized that members of Congress must show up for work, and calls on her colleagues to do the same. McGovern could not remain deaf to her statements, referring to the period of COVID, and somewhat frustrated by her views.
After listening to the distinguished chairman of the Rules Committee, my heads about to explode, he said, as quoted by Media ITE.
She talked about how disastrous it was when we had proxy voting during Covid. Yeah, so disastrous that a hundred sixty-two Republicans actually voted by proxy. She talked about how it was unconstitutional so unconstitutional that the current speaker of the House on multiple occasions voted by proxy 39 different times.
McGovern calls out Donald Trump
However, what especially arouses the reactions of everyone, including the golf public, are McGovern's statements regarding Donald Trump. He believes that his "colleague" should look at things a little more broadly, giving the example of Donald Trump, and emphasizing that the US president does most of his work from the golf course in Mar-a-Lago.
He did not forget to mention some other important figures on the US political scene, feeling that she must understand what is really the point of everything.
"But she doesnt seem to be that upset over the fact that Donald Trump conducts most of his business from a golf course in Mar-a-Lago. She doesnt seem to be very upset over the fact that the FBI director, Kash Patel, is asking to work remotely from Las Vegas. She doesnt seem that upset that there are people on the Rules Committee who use proxy voting to go to a CPAC convention to basically listen to political rhetoric from people on the extreme right wing.
I mean, the bottom line is Republicans love to talk about family values, but when given the chance to actually support families, they turn their backs."
The current US president is an important figure on the golf scene, given that he is currently the mediator in the negotiations between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, two 'warring' tours that want to unite. Being a mediator in such negotiations is challenging and difficult, but the Republican leader believes that this story will have a positive outcome, and that both parties will understand that the future of golf is in their hands.
Whether golf "spoils" Trump's focus on some important political issues is difficult to answer. One thing is certain: the US president is a passionate lover of golf, using his free time to pick up a golf club.
