9 Republicans voted with Democrats for proxy voting

Speaker Johnson furious at 9 Republicans who voted with Dems, hijacked Trump’s agenda

Top House Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, are furious that nine of their colleagues voted with Democrats on Tuesday in favor of proxy voting.

At issue is whether new parents should be allowed to vote remotely from home during the first few months after their child’s birth.

Leading the charge on the right has been Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who staunchly supports proxy voting — so much so that she resigned from the House Freedom Caucus this week in protest of their opposition to it.

Speaker Johnson basically shut down the House for the remainder of the week on the basis that it’d somehow be impossible to continue working with the procedural rule gone.

This legislation would allow new parents to vote by proxy for 12 weeks around the birth of a new child. Congress is typically in session for about 160 to 170 days each year. Think about that for a second. Mike Johnson and MTG are right.

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The message was, "Don't fu*k with moms."

No more Proxy Voting in House

Speaker McCarthy confirms official end to pandemic-related proxy voting allowed under Pelosi

With a Republican majority and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) now in charge of the House of Representatives, a number of changes have been made or are underway with respect to how that legislative body will operate over at least the next two years.

One such change that has already taken effect is an end to the practice of proxy voting, in which absent members designate other members to cast votes on their behalf.

“No more proxy voting. Effective immediately, Members of Congress have to show up to work if they want their vote to count.” Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy)

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Proxy voting started with Pelosi during the Pandemic but then members of the House began to abuse it.