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Republican House Speaker BUSTED As Past Comes Back to Haunt Him
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8:30Now PlayingRepublican House Speaker Mike Johnson gets busted over sneaky Donald Trump moves and his hypocrisy after a fellow congressman exposes Johnson's receipts over proxy voting while lying about his stance to not allow a pregnant Democrat to vote remotely. John Iadarola and Brian Unger break it down on The Damage Report.
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'Can't make this up'Mike Johnson slammed for denying pregnant lawmaker a proxy vote
"This week, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) denied a request by Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) to pass her bipartisan resolution to allow pregnant congresswomen to have other members cast their votes for them by proxy while they are indisposed by maternity care — something affecting her directly at the moment, as her due date is too close for her to fly to Washington, D.C.
“I’ve filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court asserting that proxy vote is unconstitutional," Johnson told NBC News' Sahil Kapur. "That's been my belief as a constitutional law litigator, and I don't see any way around that. And it's unfortunate. I have great sympathy, empathy for all of our young women legislators who are of birthing age. It’s a real quandary. But I'm afraid it doesn't fit with the language of the Constitution, and that's the inescapable truth that we have.”
But this is nonsense, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) wrote in a blistering thread on X, calling out Johnson for his hypocrisy — as he has voted by proxy dozens of times himself."
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