Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) blasted Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) on Tuesday over her push to force a vote on a measure to allow proxy voting for new parents in Congress. That effort scored a significant win Tuesday, when nine House Republicans joined all Democrats in opposing a procedural rule that would have blocked Luna from forcing action on the proxy voting measure. The vote also brought key legislative action on the floor to a halt — blocking planned votes on Republican priorities to limit the power of federal judges and to require proof of citizenship to vote — and compelled GOP leaders to cancel votes for the rest of the week. “I can’t believe that Congress was hijacked this week over Luna’s resolution to allow members to skip work and vote from home,” Greene wrote in a post on the social platform X after the vote. “We have critical bills to pass to prevent illegals from voting and to stop judges from vetoing President Trump’s agenda,” she added. “It’s a shame that selfish politicians are putting themselves before the American people.” Greene also took issue with the underlying proposal for proxy voting — which she said she views as unconstitutional — saying serving in Congress is a unique responsibility and, “If you aren’t capable of doing the job your constituents sent you to do, then you should step aside and let someone else do it.” “Being a member of Congress is a privilege. You're serving your district. There's lots of seasons of life. I'm a mother. I've raised three children, and when my children were babies and were young, I prioritized them in that season of life. Now, I serve in Congress because I'm not raising children, and I think that's a really important point to make,” Greene said in a video posted along with her statement. “And if any member of Congress, for any reason whatsoever, finds them in a situation where they're not able to do the job here, the important job we're elected to do, they should step down because someone else can serve in their place,” she continued. Luna successfully won the signatures of 218 lawmakers on her discharge petition, which forces a vote on Rep. Brittany Pettersen’s (D-Colo.) resolution to allow members who give birth, or lawmakers whose spouses give birth, to have another member vote on their behalf for 12 weeks. Luna earlier Tuesday made a privileged motion — enabled by her discharge petition — to bring a vote on the resolution. If leaders do nothing, they will have to take action on the matter on the House floor within two legislative days — which, with the canceled votes, would stretch to next week at the earliest. There is the possibility that GOP leaders will try again to kill the effort before that clock is up, as they sought to do on Tuesday. Luna said she did not think there was anything else leadership could do to kill the measure, but Johnson appeared to hint at the prospect: “We’ll regroup and come back and we’ll have to do this again.” ...read more read less