Rep. Brittany Pettersen holds new child son on House flooring in name for proxy voting for brand new mother and father
Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen held her new child child whereas talking on the House flooring in favor of a petition to permit distant voting for brand new mother and father.
"It is unfathomable that in 2025, we have not modernized Congress," Pettersen mentioned whereas bouncing her nine-week-old son named Sam.
House Republican management launched a joint rule that might have blocked Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s bipartisan discharge petition to permit proxy voting for brand new lawmaker mother and father as much as 12 weeks after giving beginning.
However, that vote failed 206-222, with 9 Republicans siding with a unanimous Democratic caucus to kind an uncommon bipartisan coalition — throwing the House in a brief paralysis with the shock improvement.
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