Both pieces of legislation were slated to get House votes last week, but a showdown over an unrelated measure on proxy voting for new parents in Congress wound up paralyzing the chamber floor on Tuesday afternoon, less than 24 hours after the House’s first votes of the week.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/File)
"The Committee on Rules made efforts to protect this body from a take-it-or-leave-it, all-or-nothing proposal to impose proxy voting, which, while limited, would take us down the slippery slope and return us to the rampant abuse of unlimited proxy voting for members on both sides of the aisle that we witnessed when the Democrats imposed the practice during the COVID era, yet the body felt otherwise," House Rules Committee Chair Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said at the outset of Monday's meeting.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., the top Democrat on the committee, said during his opening statement, "A supposedly pro-family party worked to block a simple, commonsense policy that supports working moms in Congress. It was a move that was unprecedented, and thankfully, a majority of members in our chamber pushed back."
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Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/File)
"When he lost the vote, Speaker Johnson sent everyone home, blaming the few Republicans who had the guts to take a stand for family values," McGovern said.
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With the matter resolved, both the rule vote and both measures themselves are expected to pass with little drama.
It's likely a different matter in the Senate, however, where both bills would need help from at least some Democrats to meet the body's 60-vote threshold for advancement.
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