Summary
A GOP-led procedural vote in the House failed after nine Republicans joined Democrats, halting legislative action for the week.
The vote’s collapse blocked Republican efforts to pass the No Rogue Rulings Act, aimed at limiting federal judges’ power, and the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote.
The failed rule also sought to derail a bipartisan resolution allowing proxy voting for new parents, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna.
With the rule defeated, Speaker Mike Johnson canceled all remaining votes until Monday evening, stalling key GOP priorities.
Republican women in our house of Representatives are demanding maternity remote work for themselves. Twelve weeks. That’s twelve weeks more than Americans get.
So they’ll have time off with their babies. And still get paid. With their free taxpayer funded Healthcare.
Leading the charge was Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla. She was in the freedom caucus, who opposed giving special treatment to women. But Luna had a baby last year. So guess what’s suddenly important to her now? She left the freedom caucus.
I fucking LOATHE Republicans. Their brains are broken that they can’t imagine something unless it happens to them. They’re too stupid or selfish, I’m not sure which. Pretty sure it’s stupid.
Definitely stupid. Also selfish, but definitely stupid. I’ve met too many of these god damn people that just cannot fathom seeing the world from the perspective of anyone else.
I agree they are selfish but I’d be cautious assuming they are stupid. That is how we got where we are today. We assumed their stupidity and incompetence would be their undoing but the past 9 years have shown us that assumption was wrong.
It’s not that they are stupid they just don’t care about being a hypocrite.
I guess I should say emotionally stupid. That doesn’t necessarily make them inherently stupid, but they just have a complete utter absence of emotional intelligence and do not care.
12 weeks is so crazy little. i got 8 weeks, as a father, and my wife took 78 weeks (at a reduced weekly pay)
Babies have to learn to be self sufficient as early as 12 weeks so that they can enter the workforce and learn to be oppressed sooner.
Agree. They need to work at McDonald’s. /s
shes one of those , i want my slice of cake i dint help buy or make, but a larger slice of it.
Congress gets the same health benefits as all federal workers. It isn’t free. https://www.cbo.gov/about/careers/benefits
I’m all for bashing congress, but continuing to throw out untrue “facts” learned from internet comments that were never verified might get more attention, but can make others disregard the rest of your statement.
A GOP-led procedural vote in the House failed after nine Republicans joined Democrats
Pog
I’m gonna start keeping track of who from each party is actually resisting
This wasn’t a partisan issue. It was literally just letting new mothers vote.
I’ll call it resisting if the American people have consequences
Those voter ID laws would have been the death knell for democracy, as they were in the Jim Crow South. Stopping them had incalculable benefits for the American people.
At least until next Monday.
Phew, the world is saved.
resolution to allow members who give birth or lawmakers whose spouses give birth to have another member vote for them for 12 weeks.
Well that sounds like a stupid proposition. The “other member” could simply use their second vote to vote however they want in absence of the lawmaker with a newborn. Surely there are better ways to handle this.
I don’t like it. No one should vote on behalf of another representative. There are ways to vote absentia.
It shouldn’t be a partisan issue, but it clearly is.
Geez I wish I could just stop working when I don’t agree wit my coworkers.
Communism is democracy in the workplace. Capitalism is authoritarianism in the workplace.
Now accepting bets on when Trump dissolves Congress.
You mean, when Musk dissolves congress?
probably hoping this a distraction from all the elon-wisconsin trumps shenangigan blows over.
Good. Let’s be honest here… When Republicans stop working America benefits.
They’ll do something when it’s about their own ability to work remotely. Otherwise, they do not give a fuck.
