Luna and Johnson strike deal to end proxy voting feud

Published April 6, 2025 4:04pm ET



House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) have reached a deal to end her effort to ensure new parents can vote by proxy. 

Last week, Luna and Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) succeeded in their efforts to sink a measure designed to disable new parents from voting remotely. Luna and Petterson designed a bill to allow for proxy voting, but Johnson had been working hard to kill the legislation he labeled “unconstitutional.”

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