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House Republicans torpedo Johnson effort to block proxy voting for new parents

Nine Republicans and all Democrats opposed Speaker Johnson's procedural vote, leading to no further action this week.
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna proposed allowing new parents to vote by proxy for up to 12 weeks, which was rejected.
Luna left the Freedom Caucus in protest and rallied support with other Republicans to halt Johnson's legislation.
House Republican leadership announced there would be no additional votes this week due to the failed procedural vote.

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna clashes with GOP House leaders, plans tele-town hall

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) – Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and House GOP leadership are at odds. The Pinellas County Republican is pushing to allow new parents the ability to vote by proxy, or remotely, for up to 12 weeks after having a baby. New bill seeks to alleviate burden on Florida citrus growers as orange groves disappear It’s a push that some Republicans in the chamber don’t want to see happen. GOP critics fear it’ll open "Pandora’s box"…

14 hours ago·Tampa, United States

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The American Spectator

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Coddled Princesses and Stupid-Party Simps Is Not How We Make an American Revival - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

From the time I found out about her, I’ve had a positive opinion of Ann Paulina Luna. She seems pretty conservative, and she seems pretty, well … pretty. So those are a couple of things that would perhaps make her a decent candidate for high likability from these quarters. But there’s a problem with Anna Paulina Luna, and it popped out this week in the middle of a legislative kerfuffle that derailed the business of the House of Representatives a…

17 hours ago·Alexandria, United States

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Why House GOP Leadership Pulled Out All the Stops to Kill This Vote–and It Backfired

House GOP leadership fought as hard against this as they have against anything.

17 hours ago·United States

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Proxy voting proposal moves forward despite GOP resistance

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR)-- Only about a dozen women in history have given birth while serving in Congress, the first in the 1970s. Many lawmakers who are also new parents argue the legislative branch has not updated its family policies since then. Their proposal to provide more flexibility for voting to take care of their newborns is still moving forward despite significant pushback from U.S. House leaders. Speaker Mike Johnson, (R-La.), tried a p…

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Republicans and Democrats team up to defy House leadership on voting for new parents

The joint rule they voted on would have blocked Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's bipartisan discharge petition to allow proxy voting for new lawmaker parents -- both new mothers and fathers -- up to 12 weeks after giving birth.

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Colorado Woman Fights Georgia Woman With Florida Woman And Louisiana Dad Is Mad!

Anna Paulina Luna, 2022, Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsYou know those Republicans, they can’t govern. Not even each other! They are all grownup versions of the kids nobody wanted to play with on the playground, because they have meltdowns when they get the tiniest scratch, and every time they lose they whine about changing the rules.Now no-nuttin’ Moses of Congress Mike Johnson is s…

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