Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) canceled the week’s remaining votes Tuesday after a rare procedural vote defeat.
A resolution by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) to allow new parents to vote by proxy without traveling to Washington triggered the fight. Luna, who gave birth to a child last year, has crusaded to return Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) pandemic-era practice of proxy voting but limited to parents.
Opponents of Luna’s resolution, including Johnson, argue it is unconstitutional – the Constitution requires that a quorum, defined as a majority of House members, be present on the House floor while transacting business.
Luna, with the assistance of all House Democrats and a handful of Republicans, secured the necessary 218 signatures on a discharge position to force Johnson
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