During a House Democratic Leadership press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) spoke about Speaker Johnson's (R-LA) predicted block of Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's (R-FL) discharge petition on proxy voting for lawmakers who recently became parents.
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00:00At 1.30, there's a vote on a rule that would table Anaplia Luna's proxy voting discharge
00:08petition.
00:09Is that something that Democrats would consider implementing if you're in the majority?
00:14And two, what does it mean to be pro-family in Congress?
00:18Well, what it means is Republicans should stop lecturing people on being pro-family
00:25when they're opposing this uniformly.
00:30What it means is Democrats and Republicans, our members are looking for opportunities
00:36to legislate and to work with their colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and I appreciate
00:41Brittany Patterson and Give Faith working with Representative Luna in order to get this
00:46done.
00:48For the first time in 100 years that the discharge petition has existed, the majority would seek
00:56to turn it off in a rule.
00:59It's unprecedented, and it's shameful and terrible.
01:04Our members will oppose these efforts.
01:07Our hope is that Republicans, reasonable Republicans, would work with us on these issues and will
01:12oppose this effort too, but it's clear that Speaker Johnson is doing everything he can
01:19to undermine the will of the House.
01:22The majority of the members in the House of Representatives would support this piece of
01:27legislation, and Democrats, under the leadership of what will be Chairman McGovern, will have
01:33those conversations with our members on what's reasonable in the next Congress.