President Donald Trump on Thursday backed an effort to allow remote voting for House lawmakers who are new parents, directly ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson successfully stopped an effort by fellow Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to allow new parents in ...

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and House Speaker Mike Johnson are discussing a narrower rule allowing new moms in the Congress to ...

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

GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna signaled Thursday night that she and Speaker Mike Johnson may have found a way to end their ...

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday formally sidelined a proposal pushed by Colorado Democrat ...

Their compromise would create a system of “vote pairing,” designed to empower pregnant lawmakers and young mothers with some ...

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Speaker Mike Johnson and Florida GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna say they have cut a deal to end the fight over proxy voting for ...

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.

The politics of the remote voting proposal shifted dramatically Thursday when Trump effectively sided with Luna and slapped down Johnson. “I’m going to let the Speaker make the decision, but I ...