Rep. Anna Pauling Luna (R-FL) took her fight with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) public over whether or not proxy voting ...
The divide over proxy voting is playing out not just within the House GOP conference, but within the House Freedom Caucus itself. The chief Republican sponsor of the proxy voting proposal is Rep.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that proxy voting is unconstitutional, despite a bipartisan push in the House to allow lawmakers who are new parents to vote while absent from Congress.
The effort to change House rules to allow recent mothers and fathers to vote by proxy is picking up steam, and proponents can now circumvent leadership and force a floor vote in the coming weeks.