Anna Paulina Luna wrote in a letter that she was leaving the House Freedom Caucus over their stance on her efforts to let new parents vote by proxy.

Luna co-sponsored a bipartisan measure to allow new parents in Congress to vote remotely around the birth of their child. Some conservatives are trying to stop it.

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.

House GOP leadership had attempted to engineer a way to quietly kill the bipartisan plan from two new mothers — Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is mounting an unusually aggressive effort to squash a proposal for new parents in Congress to able to vote by proxy.

A group of House Republicans rebelled against GOP leadership’s effort to block a vote on allowing proxy voting for new parents and delivering a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) The gambit drew the ire of House Democrats,