Nine House Republicans joined all 213 Democrats Tuesday to keep alive a bill that would allow lawmakers who are new parents to cast proxy votes for three months after their child’s birth.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is forcing a vote on legislation to enable new parents serving in Congress to vote remotely in the weeks surrounding the birth of their child. Luna introduced the measure as a "privileged resolution" on Tuesday, which gives House leaders two legislative days to take up the measure.

The Pinellas County Republican is pushing to allow new parents the ability to vote by proxy, or remotely, for up to 12 weeks after having a baby.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna quit the Freedom Caucus and called it “a betrayal of trust” that colleagues are trying to tank her bill to let new parents vote by proxy.

GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who left the House Freedom Caucus over its opposition to her push for remote voting for new parents, accused some members of the conservative group of holding Speaker Mike Johnson “hostage” over the matter and acting “disingenuous.

Five years after the pandemic created pitched, partisan fights over congressional duties, a bipartisan duo of new mothers have run into a buzzsaw fallout from the covid era.

Lawmakers from both parties teamed up to force a House vote on a measure allowing new parents to vote by proxy for 12 weeks, but House Speaker Mike Johnson opposes it on Constitutional grounds.