Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) blasted Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) on Tuesday over her push to pressure a vote on a measure to permit proxy voting for brand new mother and father in Congress.
That effort scored a major win Tuesday, when 9 Home Republicans joined all Democrats in opposing a procedural rule that may have blocked Luna from forcing motion on the proxy voting measure.
The vote additionally introduced key legislative motion on the ground to a halt — blocking deliberate votes on Republican priorities to restrict the facility of federal judges and to require proof of citizenship to vote — and compelled GOP leaders to cancel votes for the remainder of the week.
“I can’t believe that Congress was hijacked this week over Luna’s resolution to allow members to skip work and vote from home,” Greene wrote in a publish on the social platform X after the vote.
“We have critical bills to pass to prevent illegals from voting and to stop judges from vetoing President Trump’s agenda,” she added. “It’s a shame that selfish politicians are putting themselves before the American people.”
Greene additionally took concern with the underlying proposal for proxy voting — which she stated she views as unconstitutional — saying serving in Congress is a novel accountability and, “If you aren’t capable of doing the job your constituents sent you to do, then you should step aside and let someone else do it.”
“Being a member of Congress is a privilege. You’re serving your district. There’s lots of seasons of life. I’m a mother. I’ve raised three children, and when my children were babies and were young, I prioritized them in that season of life. Now, I serve in Congress because I’m not raising children, and I think that’s a really important point to make,” Greene stated in a video posted alongside along with her assertion.
“And if any member of Congress, for any reason whatsoever, finds them in a situation where they’re not able to do the job here, the important job we’re elected to do, they should step down because someone else can serve in their place,” she continued.
Luna efficiently gained the signatures of 218 lawmakers on her discharge petition, which forces a vote on Rep. Brittany Pettersen’s (D-Colo.) decision to permit members who give start, or lawmakers whose spouses give start, to have one other member vote on their behalf for 12 weeks.
Luna earlier Tuesday made a privileged movement — enabled by her discharge petition — to convey a vote on the decision. If leaders do nothing, they should take motion on the matter on the Home ground inside two legislative days — which, with the canceled votes, would stretch to subsequent week on the earliest.
There may be the likelihood that GOP leaders will attempt once more to kill the hassle earlier than that clock is up, as they sought to do on Tuesday.
Luna stated she didn’t assume there was the rest management might do to kill the measure, however Johnson appeared to trace on the prospect: “We’ll regroup and come back and we’ll have to do this again.”
