The speaker Johnson cuts the agreement with the Luna representative on the vote of parental power

The speaker Mike Johnson and the republican representative of Florida, Anna Paulina Luna, say that an agreement has come to end the fight for vote for the power of the new parents, which would reopen the floor of the camera after almost a week of legislative paralysis.

But a key democrat who joined Luna to press to make available the vote of power criticized the republican negotiation agreement as inadequate.

Republican leaders of the House of Representatives agree to formalize the “matches of votes”, a procedure that would allow a member who is absent during a vote to coordinate with a current member on the other side of the matter to compensate for the absence, they told ABC News to ABC News.

For example, the procedure in this case would allow a new mother, who is absent for a vote of the House of Representatives, joins a current legislator voting opposite to her position to form a “pair.”

Some logistics of this agreement still are clear, including the way this will be applied.

The pairing of votes, a rare practice in Congress, is certainly not equivalent to remote vote, but allows an absence to be compensated. But the absent vote of the member is not recorded in the account of a registered vote.

The voting process was used in 2018 when the Senate voted to confirm the Judge of the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court. At that time, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican from Alaska, who said she would vote against Kavanaugh, matched her vote with Senator Steve Daines de Montana so that her votes are canceled.

Johnson presented the details of the agreement on a Conference of Member Conference of the Republican Party on Sunday afternoon, the sources said.

In the light of the agreement, the sources said that Luna will not activate her high bipartisan request, which has 218 signatures, to allow mothers and fathers to vote remotely up to 12 weeks after delivery.

“The speaker Johnson and I have reached an agreement and we are formalizing a procedure called ‘Live/Dead Location’, which dates back to 1800, throughout the conference to use when it cannot be physically present to vote: new parents, afflicted, emergencies,” the Luna representative published in an X statement.

Luna thanked President Donald Trump for his “support” of new mothers. “If we really want a pro-family congress, these are the changes that should happen,” he added.

It is possible that other members, including any Democrat who signed the petition, calls and forced actions to the extent of Luna. But it would probably fail if the Republicans adhere to the voting agreement.

Johnson is still looking for ways to increase accessibility for new mothers in Congress, such as adding a room on the floor of the house for infant mothers, sources said.

Meanwhile, the Democrats of the House of Representatives, who closed their weapons with Luna last week, criticized on Monday the agreement that the Republicans arrived, maintaining that “does not provide real solutions” for legislators who are new parents.

Representative Brittany Pettersen said she is “grateful” to Luna for defending the problem that matters “, but the reality is that this result does not address the barriers that we have fought so hard to overcome.”

The setback probably indicates a uphill up so that Luna and Republicans identify the Democrats to compensate for an absence of the Republican Party, creating a little practical path for legislators under the “pairing” scheme.

“Instead of letting us vote, he has done everything possible to kill our resolution and make sure that the vast majority of its members do not have a voice,” Pettersen wrote, D-Colo., He wrote in a statement on Monday afternoon. “Let’s be clear: these changes are not a victory for us and the speaker Johnson has turned his back on moms and parents in Congress and working families.”

Pettersen says that the fight is “far from finishing”, while representative Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., Agreed that the agreement “falls short” of its goal, although it also promised to “continue pressing.”

“I will not accept the way Congress has always done things, and the American people either,” Jacobs said. “We will continue to press in innovative ways to support young people and parents in Congress, even modernizing how we vote, even if a democratic majority is needed to do so.”

The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, also refused to support the pairing gambit, indicating that he would first take the temperature of the members of his caucus who have led the discussion before publicly commenting.