A tentative deal has been reached with the Florida Republican leading a bipartisan push to allow proxy voting in the U.S. House for new parents, potentially ending a standoff that halted legislative work for days and threatened to delay a vote this week to advance President Donald Trump's agenda. The post Tentative deal is reached in House Republican fight over proxy voting for new parents appeared first on Alabama Daily News.

"It is unfathomable that in 2025 we have not modernized Congress," Rep. Brittany Pettersen said.

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After two years of a temporary provision to allow remote voting in the U.S. House, the top 36 users of the proxy voting system are all Democrats, though Republicans have also taken advantage of it. Proxy voting was meant to keep crowds of House members smaller and thereby limit the spread of COVID-19, back in […]

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"It is unfathomable that in 2025 we have not modernized Congress," Rep. Brittany Pettersen said.

House Speaker Mike Johnson suffered a decisive defeat after he tried and failed to squash a proposal for new parents in Congress to able to vote by proxy, rather than in person, as they care for newbo...

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