House Republicans ended members’ ability to vote remotely when they took power last year. Now a conservative GOP lawmaker who recently had a baby wants to bring back proxy voting in a limited fashion as a way to ease the burden on mothers balancing their responsibility to voters and their family.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R., Fla.), whose first child, Henry, was born in August, has proposed legislation that would allow lawmakers who give birth to vote remotely for six weeks. The move has gained support from members across the political spectrum but has gotten a cool reception from GOP leadership, after the party for years criticized Democrats’ decision to allow unlimited proxy voting during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“If you really want representation in this body of what the country is, you have working moms,” said Luna, a member of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus.
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