Facing headwinds from GOP leadership and the House Freedom Caucus, Luna and Pettersen vowed to fight on, only for Luna to cut a deal over the weekend with Johnson, stymieing the proxy voting effort.

Luna’s bill, written with Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-C)), reached the required number of signatures on March 11, making the lawmakers eligible to bring it up.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen said fhe fight with Speaker Mike Johnson to give new parents in Congress a proxy vote is not over, even as a resolution died over the weekend.

Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., came together on an initiative to let new parents vote by proxy in Congress.

Rep. Brittany Pettersen holds her one-month old baby Sam as she departs during a series of votes at the Capitol on March 11, in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images ...

Over the last 10 years, the Freedom Caucus grew from a small conservative "think tank" into a forceful bloc that whips Republicans on Donald Trump's agenda.

GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who left the House Freedom Caucus over its opposition to her push for remote voting for new parents, accused some members of the conservative group of holding Speaker ...

Anna Paulina Luna announced she left the House Freedom Caucus in a fiery letter accusing the group of making ... Luna successfully executed a discharge petition for Rep. Brittany Pettersen’s ...

The House Freedom Caucus lost its fifth member Monday over mutual disagreements but stayed quiet as that lawmaker, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), said her piece. Luna announced her departure ...

Rep. Brittany Pettersen holds her one-month old baby Sam as she departs during a series of votes at the Capitol on March 11, in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images ...

GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who left the House Freedom Caucus over its opposition to her push for remote voting for new parents, accused some members of the conservative group of holding Speaker ...