House Speaker Mike Johnson is celebrating much-needed victories in Florida that will expand the House majority.
Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen, asked after the vote about her message to Republican leaders, said, “We said, ‘Don’t f--- with moms.’”
Several months later, an aggressive attempt from House Republican leadership to prevent this from getting a vote backfired, prompting an irritated Speaker Mike Johnson to send House members home for the week—on a Tuesday afternoon!
The Speaker failed to kill a proposal on proxy voting by House lawmakers who have babies.
Republicans faced a dwindling majority after Gaetz and Waltz resigned from the House, making Johnson’s job more difficult as he has worked to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda. The GOP conference will now hold a 220-213 majority, with two Democratic vacancies due to the deaths of Reps. Sylvester Turner (D-TX) and Raul Grijalva (D-AZ).
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House Democrats are going after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over the Republican leadership effort to sink legislation allowing proxy voting for lawmakers on parental leave, even after the bill
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