As a bipartisan measure to allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy has failed, some lawmakers hope their states can ...

A bill sponsored by conservative firebrand Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., which would ...

Anna Paulina Luna was at her Florida home in fall 2023, caring for her newborn son and turning over a question in her mind as ...

Republicans who had been poised to force a vote on changing House rules to allow new parents to vote remotely pulled back ...

A weeks-long battle over proxy voting for new parents came to an end Tuesday, as the House agreed to Anna Paulina Luna’s deal ...

GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna struck a deal with Speaker Mike Johnson after an intraparty spat brought the House floor to a halt ...

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said Sunday that she reached an agreement with House Speaker Mike Johnson over her push to allow new ...

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) says she and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) are discussing possible paths out of the clash over ...

In many ways, Luna won. The compromise rejects her resolve to turn proxy voting into a concrete procedural statute, but vote pairing is, essentially, the constitutionally acceptable version of ...

Voting by proxy means a lawmaker casts a vote on behalf of another who is absent. Another option that has been used at the state level is remote voting, in which a member calls in to cast their vote.

Luna began reading House rules and found what seemed like a simple solution: allowing proxy voting for new moms. What Luna considered a minor rule change, affecting just a few — only about a ...

A bipartisan group of representatives have forced a delay in Congress over a proposed rule that would let new parents cast their vote by proxy As a bipartisan measure to allow new parents in ...