House Speaker Mike Johnson is celebrating much-needed victories in Florida that will expand the House majority.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he is canceling the week's voting agenda after several Republicans joined Democrats in a vote to change the rules to allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy.

Johnson was staunchly opposed and tried to derail the effort, worried that the measure would pass with Democratic help. GOP leaders proposed a measure blocking Luna’s proposal o

Mass., said of the Republicans who backed Johnson's maneuver. Much of the response from the left echoed this rhetoric, pointing out that Republicans claim to be a "pro-family" party, but when given a chance to make life slightly easier for new parents,

He doesn't appear to have control of the House floor. An internal GOP fight over whether new parents serving in the House should be able to cast votes by proxy has metastasized into a battle of wills between competing factions of Republicans.

Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen, asked after the vote about her message to Republican leaders, said, “We said, ‘Don’t f--- with moms.’”

Nine House Republicans voted against House Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to block proxy voting for new parents on Tuesday. Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, alongside Representative Brittany Peterson,

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) touched off considerable anger from his Republican members Tuesday with his efforts to block lawmakers who are new parents from being able to vote by proxy. Why it matters: Johnson tied his motion to kill Rep.

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 vote for them for 12 weeks after they or their