Posted on 04/01/2025 3:26:58 PM PDT by CaptainK
House Republican 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 Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) informed lawmakers the next vote in the House would be Monday evening.
The announcement came minutes after nine Republicans joined all Democrats in opposing a procedural rule that would have killed a bipartisan effort to allow proxy voting for new parents. The vote also blocked planned votes on GOP priorities to limit the power of federal judges and to require proof of citizenship to vote.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) successfully used an arcane and rarely successful discharge petition procedure to force a vote on Rep. Brittany Pettersen’s (D-Colo.) resolution to allow members who give birth or lawmakers whose spouses give birth to have another member vote for them for 12 weeks.
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Clearly, these RINOs are compromised and the Deep State is cashing in chits.
What is Vision House?
They let Congress use proxy voting for over a year for Covid.
But 12 weeks of proxy voting if someone has a baby is somehow completely unthinkable.
God forbid Congress do something pro-baby.
This would pretty much help us. Democrats kill their babies.
IDK. When I cut and pasted the title from The Hill that got picked up.
“The announcement came minutes after nine Republicans joined all Democrats in opposing a procedural rule that would have killed a bipartisan effort to allow proxy voting for new parents. “
Names?
I agree- good for Anna...she’s on the correct side, again!!
Male members never asked for this when their wives had children.
12 weeks is excessive. They all live in DC or the area. No reason they can’t just show up to vote and then go back on leave.
The list of Repubs:
Anna Paulia Luna (R-Fl) and Reps. Tim Burchett (R-TN), Kevin Kiley (R-CA), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Max Miller (R-OH), Mike Lawler (R-NY), Greg Steube (R-FL), and Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA) were among the Republicans who voted against the rule.
Who are the nine Republicans that voted with the Rats?
From Fox
“Some Republicans on that panel were frustrated at being kept in the dark by House leaders until the final moments before their committee vote on Tuesday morning. All Republicans on the committee voted for the rule, however.
Reps. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., Greg Steube, R-Fla., Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., Max Miller, R-Ohio, and Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., were among those who voted to kill the rule.”
Thanks...
Doesn’t make sense to me.
She could have waited. More important bills were coming up.
Mike Johnson sure is acting like a Johnson here.
Is Anna Paulina Luna a RINO or is she MAGA House member?
She and some other Republicans support proxy voting for new parents in the House and Johnson looks like one too.
No Johnson needs to let this happen and move onto those important votes sad.
“ This would pretty much help us. Democrats kill their babies.”
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I can’t disagree with your post. But the proposed 12 week absentee voting allowance for new parents is a good pro-life change, IMHO.
She is helping a demonrat, how is she on the right side?
“The vote also blocked planned votes on GOP priorities to limit the power of federal judges and to require proof of citizenship to vote.”
It was to stall this longer.
The 12 week cr** is absurd.
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