A bipartisan group of representatives have forced a delay in Congress over a proposed rule that would let new parents cast ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A tentative deal has been reached with the Florida Republican leading a bipartisan push to allow proxy ...

Anna Paulina Luna was at her Florida home in fall 2023, caring for her newborn son and turning over a question in her mind as ...

House Republicans voted Tuesday to advance a procedural rule that ends a bitter GOP fight over proxy voting for new parents ...

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said Sunday that she reached an agreement with House Speaker Mike Johnson over her push to allow new ...

GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna struck a deal with Speaker Mike Johnson after an intraparty spat brought the House floor to a halt ...

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 ...

In many ways, Luna won. The compromise rejects her resolve to turn proxy voting into a concrete procedural statute, but vote pairing is, essentially, the constitutionally acceptable version of ...

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.

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 ...

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.