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House Republicans voted Tuesday to advance a procedural rule that ends a bitter GOP fight over proxy voting for new parents ...
The U.S. House is rethinking its voting rules after a push from Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to allow proxy voting for ...
Republicans who had been poised to force a vote on changing House rules to allow new parents to vote remotely pulled back ...
As a bipartisan measure to allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy has failed, some lawmakers hope their states can ...
A weeks-long battle over proxy voting for new parents came to an end Tuesday, as the House agreed to Anna Paulina Luna’s deal ...
GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna struck a deal with Speaker Mike Johnson after an intraparty spat brought the House floor to a halt ...
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said Sunday that she reached an agreement with House Speaker Mike Johnson over her push to allow new ...
There is only one conclusion to draw from the debacle over allowing members of Congress who are also new parents to vote by proxy: Republicans don’t think women should be able to vote (in the ...
A bipartisan group of representatives have forced a delay in Congress over a proposed rule that would let new parents cast their vote by proxy As a bipartisan measure to allow new parents in ...
Luna began reading House rules and found what seemed like a simple solution: allowing proxy voting for new moms. What Luna considered a minor rule change, affecting just a few — only about a ...
Voting by proxy means a lawmaker casts a vote on behalf of another who is absent. Another option that has been used at the state level is remote voting, in which a member calls in to cast their vote.
As a bipartisan measure to allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy has failed, some lawmakers hope their states can find solutions to bring and keep younger women in state capitols.