{"id":7938,"date":"2025-04-03T06:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T06:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-digs-in-against-proxy-voting-citing-houses-integrity-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T06:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T06:21:03","slug":"johnson-digs-in-against-proxy-voting-citing-houses-integrity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-digs-in-against-proxy-voting-citing-houses-integrity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson digs in against proxy voting, citing House\u2019s \u2018integrity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is digging in against allowing proxy voting for the House&#8217;s new parents, heightening a standoff with members of his own party that has frozen legislative action in the chamber. &ldquo;While I understand the pure motivations of the few Republican proxy vote advocates, I simply cannot support the change they seek,&rdquo; Johnson said in a Wednesday post on X&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/02\/congress\/johnson-slams-proxy-voting-00267348\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is digging in against allowing proxy voting for the House&#8217;s new parents, heightening a standoff with members of his own party that has frozen legislative action in the chamber. &ldquo;While I understand the pure motivations of the few Republican proxy vote advocates, I simply cannot support the change they seek,&rdquo; Johnson said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938","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=7938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}