Support for a resolution to allow recent parents to vote in the House by proxy appears to be waning, as Republicans target those in their ranks who backed the measure.
Florida GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said rank-and-file members who supported a discharge petition, which allows proponents to circumvent leadership and bring the proxy-voting measure to the floor, are facing enormous pressure to drop it.
“I’m not going to be bought,” Luna said on the House steps Thursday. She described various tactics but would not say who had wielded them. “I will tell you that I’ve now been reached out to multiple times offering me positions on different committees, and I don’t want it, because this is bigger than me. It’s about changing the institution for the better.”
