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Johnson, who has opposed proxy voting, attempted to quash the effort on Tuesday, but his measure failed by a vote of 222 to 206.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson endured a decisive defeat Tuesday after he staged an unusually aggressive effort to squash a proposal for new parents in Congress to able to vote by proxy, rather than in pe...
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A band of Republican lawmakers on Tuesday sunk an effort by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to kill a plan to allow remote voting for lawmakers who become new parents, a bitter dispute that brought the ...
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Mike Johnson scraps his whole week after brutal defeat
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) canceled half a week's worth of House votes after failing to contain a revolt over proxy voting within his own party. Why it matters: It was Johnson's biggest legislative blow of 2025 thus far — and the first where President Trump wasn't providing him reinforcement.
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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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Stephanie Grace: Mike Johnson is learning the hard way that sometimes parenthood trumps partisanship
House Speaker Mike Johnson has mostly held his tiny Republican majority together, but as Congress considers whether to allow proxy voting for new parents, he's finding that some forces may be stronger than political party.
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