17·
13 hours agoIt’s just a rule they can’t vote on it until Monday. Which was the original schedule until Anna Paulina Luna used the arcane rule to move it up. She probably did that because nobody comes to work on Mondays and she didn’t think they’d have the votes. She worked with a Democrat to create the bill and had a baby just a few months after being elected. She left the Freedom Caucus over it.
The 9 Rs didn’t like being pushed around.
Or, just maybe, some of them (plus her) are the ones that some of the more quietly persuasive Democrats need to be talking to off the floor…
Edit: Either way, I’m happy for anything that messes with the GOP pushing through their hate agenda. Delay, Deny, Defend us against tyranny!
There’s a bit of “strange bedfellows” involved here. Two women, one D and one R, realized they and anyone like them could lose their opportunities to vote on legislation (ie do their job) if childbirth or neonatal complications kept them away from the Capitol Building. So they sponsored this bill.
Democrats like it because it makes the job fairer to women. I presume some of the Republicans feel it fits their pro-birth agenda, and helps against women’s tendency to vote more left than their spouses.
They may also like the part that Johnson hates, which is that it opens a door to further proxy voting. Which he says is bad because legislators need to be in the same building interacting with each other, (which we can all see isn’t doing shit for bipartisanship) but mostly that rule is used for partisan gamesmanship, timing votes according to who will be present. He doesn’t want to have to learn how to work with a change in the rules.
Three bills got linked together as part of his shenanigans, so now all three are stuck until at least Monday.