Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen said the decision to bring her 9-week-old was "difficult" but illustrated the need to pass the petition.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen on Tuesday celebrated a rare bipartisan victory in Congress. The big picture: The Lakewood Democrat joined U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) in backing a resolution to allow members of Congress who are new parents to vote by proxy — despite House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.

Colo. Rep. Brittany Pettersen held her 4-month-old baby while pleading on the House floor to reverse an effort to ban proxy voting for new moms.

The group of Republicans teamed up with Democrats to overcome a procedural hurdle backed by GOP leadership that would have blocked a proposed resolution allowing new parents in Congress to vote remotely.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday said he is “working on every possible accommodation” to make it easier for mothers to serve in Congress amid the impasse between GOP leadership and Rep.

Pettersen, along with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., are some of the few lawmakers to have ever given birth while serving in Congress. There are fewer than 20. Now, Pettersen and Luna are teaming up with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to help fight for new parents in the House of Representatives to be able to vote by proxy.

Nine House Republicans joined all 213 Democrats Tuesday to keep alive a bill that would allow lawmakers who are new parents to cast proxy votes for three months after their child’s birth.

The House voted to reject a rule that would have blocked Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's bipartisan discharge petition to allow proxy voting for new lawmaker parents.