Clyburn: 'Maybe it is' time for remote House voting Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican and the chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, made the change in light of the health concerns and the challenges of commercial travel. The Rules Committee will now waive a specific section of the Senate's travel regulations, loosening it up so members would be able to use their office funds to pay for the flights.
The change lifts the rule that the "Charter of aircraft may be allowed notwithstanding the availability of commercial facilities, if such commercial facilities are not such that reasonable schedules may be kept. Now, if a senator needs to take a private flight, they will be able to use their office funds -- formally the Senator's Official Personnel and Office Expense Account, a discretionary pot of money that each member has to support their official and representational duties.
Like the vice president and several cabinet secretaries, the first lady has access to C government aircraft when she travels domestically and internationally. According to Ward, Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner invited cabinet secretaries like Steve Mnuchin as a way of getting around the prohibition on using government jets.
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