Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast There is only one conclusion to draw from the debacle over allowing members of ...

GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said Sunday that she has reached an agreement with Speaker Mike Johnson in their standoff over allowing proxy voting for new parents, which had paralyzed the House last week ...

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said Sunday that she and House Speaker Mike Johnson have reached an agreement on a voting accommodation for new parents that will avoid bringing back proxy voting. The agreement ...

Proxy-voting certainly took the spotlight in 2025. We saw the SEC narrow the scope of permissible shareholder proposals toward the beginning of the year. And toward the end, a White House executive ...

Republicans who had been poised to force a vote on changing House rules to allow new parents to vote remotely pulled back after the speaker offered a narrower solution for new mothers. By Annie Karni ...

A fiery fight between Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) over remote voting for new parents fizzled out over the weekend with a compromise to bring back vote pairing, a ...

A weekslong dustup over proxy voting for new parents in the House came to an end Tuesday despite a last-ditch effort from one of its chief proponents. “Congress is stuck doing things the way that we ...

A majority of House members backed changing the rules to allow new parents to vote remotely. But in a Congress dominated by far-right Republicans, parental leave was a bridge too far. By Annie Karni ...