In a major defeat for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) led the effort to advance remote voting for members of Congress who are new parents.Nine Republicans joined all House Democrats to advance the measure that would allow the new parents to designate a colleague to v...

More cracks showing. Keep it up.

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 day ago

    "…measure that would allow the new parents to designate a colleague to vote for them for 12 weeks after they or their spouse welcome a new child."

    For some reason I read this as a spouse welcome a new child without the Congress person. (as in born of someone else)

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    41·
    1 day ago

    This is SOCIALISM!

    If you let Working Class people like ME do it! It’s TOTALLY FINE if our Millionaire Representatives get to!