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Hold on.. I'm having trouble unpacking this. Can you explain the math here? Did I read that this is all the result of internal GOP drama because someone had a baby?
There's a bit of "strange bedfellows" involved here. Two women, one D and one R, realized they and anyone like them could lose their opportunities to vote on legislation (ie do their job) if childbirth or neonatal complications kept them away from the Capitol Building. So they sponsored this bill.
Democrats like it because it makes the job fairer to women. I presume some of the Republicans feel it fits their pro-birth agenda, and helps against women's tendency to vote more left than their spouses.
They may also like the part that Johnson hates, which is that it opens a door to further proxy voting. Which he says is bad because legislators need to be in the same building interacting with each other, (which we can all see isn't doing shit for bipartisanship) but mostly that rule is used for partisan gamesmanship, timing votes according to who will be present. He doesn't want to have to learn how to work with a change in the rules.
Three bills got linked together as part of his shenanigans, so now all three are stuck until at least Monday.
Bruh
Edit: thanks so much for the explanation, it makes sense now, but wow