Brittany Pettersen hasn’t slept well lately, moving around tends to be painful, and the Capitol is roughly 1,600 miles away.
“I’m so grateful not to be waddling my way through the airport,” the Colorado Democrat, now in her third trimester of pregnancy, said last week after announcing that she was no longer able to fly to Washington ahead of her due date.
Being at home is in many ways a relief to Pettersen, who came to Congress in 2023. But according to House rules, it also means she had to make the difficult choice between having her child in Colorado and representing her constituents by casting votes.
