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.
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.
Twelve weeks. That’s twelve weeks more than Americans get.
Paid is the important additional criteria in your statement. Fmla keeps your insurance running and guarantees 12 weeks off work unpaid for maternity leave(for people working more than the pittance that is 1250 hours a year) — something many Americans cannot afford.
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.
I’m not sure if this is Johnson acting immature and throwing a tantrum because the GOP couldn’t get their way, or if he’s buying time to make sure they can get the nine Republicans into line before trying again.
Definitely the latter. They don’t want to risk anyone else defecting in the meantime after repeated failures that make them look bad, so they’re looking for some other way to coerce the votes.
It’s just a rule they can’t vote on it until Monday. Which was the original schedule until Anna Paulina Luna used the arcane rule to move it up. She probably did that because nobody comes to work on Mondays and she didn’t think they’d have the votes. She worked with a Democrat to create the bill and had a baby just a few months after being elected. She left the Freedom Caucus over it.
The 9 Rs didn’t like being pushed around.
Or, just maybe, some of them (plus her) are the ones that some of the more quietly persuasive Democrats need to be talking to off the floor…
Edit: Either way, I’m happy for anything that messes with the GOP pushing through their hate agenda. Delay, Deny, Defend us against tyranny!
Hold on… I’m having trouble unpacking this. Can you explain the math here? Did I read that this is all the result of internal GOP drama because someone had a baby?
There’s a bit of “strange bedfellows” involved here. Two women, one D and one R, realized they and anyone like them could lose their opportunities to vote on legislation (ie do their job) if childbirth or neonatal complications kept them away from the Capitol Building. So they sponsored this bill.
Democrats like it because it makes the job fairer to women. I presume some of the Republicans feel it fits their pro-birth agenda, and helps against women’s tendency to vote more left than their spouses.
They may also like the part that Johnson hates, which is that it opens a door to further proxy voting. Which he says is bad because legislators need to be in the same building interacting with each other, (which we can all see isn’t doing shit for bipartisanship) but mostly that rule is used for partisan gamesmanship, timing votes according to who will be present. He doesn’t want to have to learn how to work with a change in the rules.
Three bills got linked together as part of his shenanigans, so now all three are stuck until at least Monday.
A GOP-led procedural vote in the House failed after nine Republicans joined Democrats
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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.
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.
Perhaps there could be some a voting form of sorts, which gets mailed to e.g. new mothers. And they have something like a couple of weeks to fill out how they wish to vote, I suppose they could sign it too if need be, then return it in a security envelope of sorts to the voting place.
I know it may sound like madness, but this form of voting-by-letters-in-the-trusted-care-of-USPS may sound a bit futuristic; but I am confident society can pull it off.
Geez I wish I could just stop working when I don’t agree wit my coworkers.
I quit a job after a coworker started yelling and screaming because I was told to go help them. I said I couldn’t work with them anymore.My manager said, “well you can’t pick who you work with.” So I turned in my shit ans left the next day. You actually can pick who you work with.
Now accepting bets on when Trump dissolves Congress.
