The Republican speaker, who has mostly wielded power by relying on the threat of retribution from President Trump, has chosen ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday said he is “working on every possible accommodation” to make it easier for mothers ...

Alfonso, laid into the effort for proxy voting led by Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna after the House tanked a ...

Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen said the decision to bring her 9-week-old was "difficult" but illustrated the need to pass ...

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) emerged victorious in a battle with House GOP leadership after a procedural hurdle to kill Luna ...

Congress has stood as a deliberative body, its members bound by tradition and constitutional duty to assemble in person to ...

Only about a dozen women in history have given birth while serving in Congress, the first in the 1970s. Many lawmakers who ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson endured a decisive defeat after he staged an unusually aggressive effort to squash a proposal for ...

House leaders tried to kill the idea of proxy voting for new parents, but rank and file members sent them a different message.

House Republican leaders inserted language into a procedural measure that would effectively kill Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s ...

Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen, asked after the vote about her message to Republican leaders, said, “We said, ‘Don’t f--- ...

A move to stop a proxy voting effort led by new moms in Congress failed in the House of Representatives. Rep. Anna Paulina ...