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“Today is a pretty historical day for the entire conference,” the Florida Republican said immediately following the vote. “It’s showing that the body has decided that parents deserve a voice in Washin...
Washington Times |
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday canceled votes for the rest of the week after he failed to stop renegade Republicans from forcing a vote to restore proxy voting in the chamber.
The Boston Globe |
Some 218 lawmakers backed their effort, signing on to a so-called discharge petition to force their proposal on the House floor for consideration.

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Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen said the decision to bring her 9-week-old was "difficult" but illustrated the need to pass the petition.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday canceled votes for the rest of the week after he failed to stop renegade Republicans from forcing a vote to restore proxy voting in the chamber.
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House Republicans leaders on Tuesday canceled votes for the rest of the week after a band of GOP lawmakers staged a rebellion on the floor, bringing legislative action to a screeching halt. House
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In an unprecedented move, the House Republican leadership had engineered a way to try and quietly kill the bipartisan plan from two new mothers in Congress.
House Speaker Johnson fails to squash a proxy voting effort from new moms in Congress
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Johnson Moves to Block a Bill Allowing New Parents in the House to Vote by Proxy
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Pettersen scores proxy voting win
U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen on Tuesday celebrated a rare bipartisan victory in Congress. The big picture: The Lakewood Democrat joined U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) in backing a resolution to allow members of Congress who are new parents to vote by proxy — despite House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.
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Rep. Brittany Pettersen on why she's pushing for remote voting in Congress
Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen is leading a push to allow new parents to vote by proxy instead of in person.
Colo. Rep. Brittany Pettersen holds baby during plea for proxy voting on House floor
Colo. Rep. Brittany Pettersen held her 4-month-old baby while pleading on the House floor to reverse an effort to ban proxy voting for new moms.
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Proxy voting in the U.S. House clears a major hurdle
House leaders tried to kill the idea of proxy voting for new parents, but rank and file members sent them a different message.
Bipartisan coalition quashes opposition to House proxy vote proposal
House lawmakers who have newly born infants might gain the ability to choose a colleague to temporarily vote in their place after having a baby.
U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie bucked his party on allowing new parents in Congress to vote by proxy
Mackenzie, who has a nearly 1-year-old son, said his work in the Pennsylvania statehouse creating a maternal mortality review committee helped inform him on what new mothers and parents go through.
Anna Paulina Luna defeats GOP effort to block proxy voting for new moms and dads in blow to Speaker Johnson
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.
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