{"id":2709,"date":"2024-11-20T19:37:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/luna-johnson-blocked-proxy-voting-for-new-moms\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T19:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:37:44","slug":"luna-johnson-blocked-proxy-voting-for-new-moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/luna-johnson-blocked-proxy-voting-for-new-moms\/","title":{"rendered":"Luna: Johnson blocked proxy voting for new moms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said Wednesday that Speaker Mike Johnson has blocked her proposal to allow new mothers to vote by proxy for several months from being included in the rules package for the next Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, after speaking with @SpeakerJohnson about this for months, I was told, He will not support allowing female members to vote if they give birth,\u201d she wrote in a thread on X. \u201cAmong other things, this is something that I fundamentally disagree with him on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but he has backup from other corners of the Republican conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t give a crap who you are or whether you just had a baby in the last six weeks,\u201d Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/c\/CRPodcast\" target=\"_blank\">CR Podcast with Daniel Horowitz<\/a>.\u201d \u201cIt is unconstitutional to proxy vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luna has been leading the charge throughout the year, beginning her bipartisan push in January to allow new moms to vote remotely in order to spend more time with their newborns.<\/p>\n<p>Proxy voting was used in the then-Democratic controlled House during the pandemic, but faced legal challenges and staunch opposition from Republicans who decried it as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said Wednesday that Speaker Mike Johnson has blocked her proposal to allow new mothers to vote by proxy for several months from being included in the rules package for the next Congress. \u201cToday, after speaking with @SpeakerJohnson about this for months, I was told, He will not support allowing female [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}