Speaker Mike Johnson's measure to block the introduction of a bill allowing proxy voting failed as nine Republicans voted with Democrats.

On proxy voting for new moms in Congress, the president cut the Republican House Speaker off at the knees, despite his loyalty to the White House.

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Capitol Police arrested Hayden Haynes on March 4, about 45 minutes after the president’s address concluded, after he backed his Tesla into a parked Chevrolet Suburban.

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Nine Republicans joined with all Democrats to vote against a procedural rule to advance a package of GOP-led bills over the proxy vote fight.

House Speaker Mike Johnson endured a decisive defeat Tuesday after he staged an unusually aggressive effort to squash a proposal for new parents in Congress to able to vote by proxy, rather than in person,

The Republican speaker, who has mostly wielded power by relying on the threat of retribution from President Trump, has chosen an institutional fight it’s not clear he can win.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is scrambling to break the impasse over the push to allow proxy voting for new parents, as the standoff between GOP leadership and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.)

House Speaker Mike Johnson gave a quick reality check to President Trump’s musings about pursuing a third term in the White House, noting that amending the Constitution is a “high

House GOP leadership had attempted to engineer a way to quietly kill the bipartisan plan from two new mothers — Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen.