House GOP leaders expected to block proxy voting for new parents

Republican chamber leaders will take an unprecedented step on Tuesday, when they are expected to block the Republican Republic Anna Paulina Luna, a two -party petition for discharge, to allow proxy vote for new MPs up to 12 weeks after birth – the last move in the internal clash of GOPs.

Republican leaders have inserted a specific language into the joint “rule”-a procedural maneuver for the progress of the legislation-which says the petition for the release from the moon, the Republican of the hard line and other similar bills that would deal with the vote of proxy are out of order.

Voting on Tuesday afternoon is for the joint rule – which includes other unrelated legislation. Luna is expected to vote against the rule. If others join it, the Chamber may be paralyzed by the movement of legislation.

Luna’s legislation seeks to allow new mothers and fathers in the House to vote for legislation remotely. Luna had a child in 2023 while serving in the congress.

“I do this because I believe that this governing body must change to the better and young American parents should be heard in the halls of the congress,” Luna said last week.

This exceptional move by GOP leaders to block the legislation comes after Luna received 218 signatures for its resolution – enough necessary to force the chamber to vote for the measure. Legislators use petitions to dismiss leadership that determine what legislation comes to the floor.

Spokesman Mike Johnson and Luna are contrary to proxy vote for new parents. The speaker claims that the efforts were unconstitutional and made his work during the GOP conference meeting on Tuesday morning, sources told ABC News.

Johnson claims that the vote of proxy is the beginning of a slippery slope that can lead to more and more members to vote remotely. Proxy voting was used during the Covid-19 pandemic, which many Republicans were.

“I believe that it is unconstitutional. I believe that it violates more than two centuries of tradition in the institution and I think it opens a box of Pandora, where in the end maybe no one is here, and we all vote remotely from AI or something.

Despite some Republican support for the bill, Johnson said: “As the leader of this institution and the one who has to protect it, I do not feel that I can get on board with it.”

“This is a conscious body. You cannot discuss your colleagues if you are out somewhere else. Now there are family circumstances that make it difficult for people to attend votes. I understand this. I have had them myself,” he said.

Luna said in a post on Tuesday that she asked for the legislation to simply cover new mothers to vote with proxy “and they still said” no. “

“The argument here makes no sense,” Luna writes. “They say it is unconstitutional, but they voted by proxy.”

The vote comes a day after Luna resigned from the ultra -conservative cause for the freedom of the house because of her legislation, according to a letter received by ABC News.

“With a heavy heart, I reconcile from the cause of freedom. I cannot remain part of the cause where few work beyond its instructions, abusing its name, Broker Backroom deals, which undermine its basic values ​​and where the lines of the American ones are blurred by me.