Moore appears in the House for the speaker’s vote after testing positive for COVID-19

Rep. Gwen MooreGwen Sophia Moore COVID Is Wild Card As Pelosi Faces Tricky Speaker Vote Sunday Representative Wisconsin Gwen Moore Tests Positive For COVID-19 Democrats Accuse Kushner Of ‘Casual Racism’ Over Comments About Black Americans MORE (D-Wis.), Who announced she tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 28, is scheduled to attend the Capitol on Sunday for the speaker’s vote.

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends those who test positive or who have been exposed to the virus quarantine for at least seven to 10 days, Moore’s office told Punchbowl News that she “has worked with doctors and can travel safely.”

Later asked by a reporter if she had tested negative, Moore acknowledged, “I did not get a negative test,” but said she had been approved by the Capitol’s attending physician Brian Monahan to be in the Capitol for two weeks. quarantined. .

Her decision to participate in the vote comes as chairman Nancy PelosiNancy Pelosi Governor of Kentucky calls vandalism in McConnell’s home ‘unacceptable’ Pelosi’s, McConnell’s homes destroyed as bill K-stimulus check fails Georgia keeps senate agenda in limbo MORE (D-Calif.) Faces a wafer-thin bezel to keep her gavel.

The House allowed proxy voting in last year’s ballots and will do so again in this Congress, but not until a rule package is passed in a post-office vote vote.

Monahan also approved the use of a plexiglass casing in the visitors’ gallery in the Chamber of the House to allow three lawmakers who should be quarantined to vote on Sunday. But the case has no top and is not completely sealed.

Republicans criticized Pelosi for Moore for appearing in the room.

“It seems @ SpeakerPelosi’s proxy voting and remote hearing measures are only essential when her leadership position is not at stake,” said Rep. Bruce WestermanBruce Eugene WestermanOvernight Energy: Trump EPA Completes Air Rule Critics Say Favors Polluters | Zinke returns to Interior | in official and unofficial portraits on horseback Vilsack gets a lukewarm response when Biden Agriculture selects among those seeking reformed USDA bipartisan senators to introduce a tree conservation bill as a climate solution. McMorris Rodgers wins race for top GOP spot at Energy and Commerce | EPA joins the conservative social network Parler MORE (R-Ark.) Tweeted.

Well, that would be wrong. I mean we have two members who have COVID and we kept them at home. I couldn’t imagine them [Pelosi] would bring someone in here who could cause problems for people, ”House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthyKevin Owen McCarthy Congress lifts Trump’s right of veto for first time Biden calls on nation to ‘unify, heal and rebuild in 2021’ NJ Republican urges Ways and Means seat one year after switching sides MORE (R-Calif.) Told The Hill.

Cristina Marcos contributed. Updated at 2:38 PM