House Republicans rebelled against leadership over a new parent proxy voting bill. Now leaders have to figure out how to move the House out of a standstill.
Nine House Republicans joined all 213 Democrats Tuesday to keep alive a bill that would allow lawmakers who are new parents to cast proxy votes for three months after their child’s birth.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is resigning from the House Freedom Caucus, she announced in a letter to fellow conservatives on Monday.
Luna co-sponsored a bipartisan measure to allow new parents in Congress to vote remotely around the birth of their child. Some conservatives are trying to stop it.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) announced her departure Monday from the conservative House Freedom Caucus after disagreements within the group over her proxy voting bill. After a contentious few weeks in the Freedom Caucus,
House Republican leaders are playing hardball as they try to stop Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) from triggering a vote on a bill to allow proxy voting for new parents, throwing a procedural
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) announced on Monday that she is leaving the House Freedom Caucus amid her battle with GOP leadership and hardline Republicans over her push to allow proxy voting
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House Speaker Mike Johnson suffered a decisive defeat after he tried and failed to squash a proposal for new parents in Congress to able to vote by proxy, rather than in person, as they care for newborns.