A special election in Florida's 1st Congressional District between Republican Jimmy Patronis and Democrat Gay Valimont was held to determine the successor to Matt Gaetz's House seat.
The speaker tried to use an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver to deny a bipartisan majority the chance to hold a vote on their proposal to allow new parents to vote remotely in the House.
Speaker Mike Johnson argued that proxy voting was unconstitutional, even though the Supreme Court refused to take up a Republican-led lawsuit challenging proxy voting in the House during the Covid pandemic.
Elise Stefanik abruptly withdrew from her nomination to be U.N. ambassador as the GOP presses forward on a crucial reconciliation bill relying on its tight margin.
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