Rule to block the Luna representative plan for the vote of power for new parents failure in the house

The Chamber voted on Tuesday to reject a rule that would have blocked the bipartisan petition of representative Anna Paulina Luna to allow the vote for the power of the new legislators up to 12 weeks after giving birth.

Nine Republicans joined the Democrats to vote against the joint “rule”, a procedural maneuver to advance in the legislation, which said that Luna’s high request, a hard -line republican, and other similar bills that address the vote by power are out of service.

Republican leaders of the House of Representatives had said they would take the unprecedented step to block Luna’s request, the last movement in an internal clash of the one -week representatives chamber.

Luna’s legislation seeks to allow new mothers and fathers in the Chamber to vote on legislation remotely. Luna had a son in 2023 while serving in Congress.

Democratic representatives Brittany Pettersen and Sara Jacobs presented the effort with Luna and Republican representative Michael Lawler in January.

“I am doing this because I believe that this governing body needs to change for the best and young American parents must be heard in the halls of Congress,” Luna said last week.

Pettersen spoke in favor of Luna’s resolution on Tuesday when he held his 9 -week son, Sam.

While Sam lulled, shrieked, screamed and cried in his mother’s arms, Pettersen, with an eruption fabric hung on his shoulder, begged bipartisan cooperation to “modernize Congress” and address life events for legislators.

“No mom or dad should be in the position in which he was and so many parents have found themselves. It’s anti-woman, it’s anti-family and we have to join,” he said on the floor of the house.

Pettersen is only the 13th chamber member who has given birth while serving in Congress, and returned to Washington after his son was born prematurely, “faced an impossible decision.”

“We have a long way to go so that this place is accessible to young families like mine,” said Pettersen. “For all parents here, we know that when we have newborns, it is when they are the most vulnerable in their lives. It is when they need 24-7” attention.

The extraordinary movement of the republican party leaders to block legislation occurs after Luna received 218 signatures about its resolution, necessary enough to force the Chamber to vote on the measure. Legislators use high requests to avoid leadership, who determine what legislation reaches the floor.

The speaker Mike Johnson and Luna have disagree on the vote for the power of the new parents. The speaker has argued that the effort is unconstitutional and made his case during the meeting of the Conference of the Republican Party closed on Tuesday, the sources told ABC News.

Johnson has argued that the vote of power is the beginning of a slippery slope that could lead to more and more members to vote remotely. Voting for power was used during the Covid-19 pandemic, with which many Republicans were against.

“I think it is unconstitutional. I think it violates more than two centuries of tradition in the institution, and I think it opens a pandora box where, ultimately, maybe nobody is here, and we are all voting remotely for the or something.

Despite republican support for the bill, Johnson said: “As the leader of this institution and the one who is supposed to protect it, I do not feel that I can admit that.”

“This is a deliberative body. You cannot deliberate with your colleagues if you are outside.

Luna said In a publication on X Tuesday That she asked that the legislation only cover the new mothers to vote for power “and still said no.”

“The argument here no longer makes sense,” Luna wrote. “They say it is unconstitutional, but they voted for power.”

The president of the Democratic Caucus of the House of Representatives, Pete Aguilar, declared that it is time for Republicans to stop with the conference “Pro-Family”.

“Republicans should stop conferring people to be pro-family when they oppose this uniformly,” he said at the weekly press conference of the party on Tuesday.

Aguilar praised the representative Pettersen for working through the hall with a moon, since the republican leadership has furious for the bipartisan effort.

“It is shameful and terrible. Our members will oppose these efforts, our hope is that the reasonable Republicans who have worked with us on these issues will also oppose the effort,” said Aguilar about the high request block. “It is clear that President Johnson is doing everything possible to undermine the will of the Chamber. The majority of the members of the House of Representatives would support this legislation.”

The vote occurs one day after Luna resigned from the freedom of the Chamber of Ultra Conservative Representatives about their legislation, according to a letter obtained by ABC News.

“With a heavy heart, I am renouncing the Caucus de la Libertad. I cannot remain part of a caucus in which a few selected operate outside their guidelines, they use their name poor The lyrics

Lalee Ibssa of ABC News contributed to this report.