GOP lawmaker and Speaker Mike Johnson clash over proxy voting for new parents
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is clashing with Speaker Mike Johnson over her push to pass legislation that would allow lawmakers who are new parents to vote remotely.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is clashing with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., over her push to pass legislation that would allow lawmakers who are new parents to vote remotely.
In a closed-door meeting Tuesday, Johnson discouraged rank-and-file Republicans from supporting Luna’s proxy voting bill, warning that it was unconstitutional, a source in the meeting said.
“We want to make it as easy as possible for young parents to be able to participate in the process,” Johnson told reporters after the meeting. “But proxy voting, in my view, is unconstitutional.”
Luna then took to X and posted a photo of three documents showing when Johnson had himself voted by proxy in 2022.
“He argues it’s ‘unconstitutional’ but has done it several times,” she wrote.
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