By Ashleigh Fields | The Hill, via KDVR-TV Fox 31 News
Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.), who is currently pregnant, is urging fellow lawmakers to support her in a bid to allow proxy voting for members of Congress who are new parents under the Rules of the House for the 119th Congress.
Pettersen is slated to become the 14th member — and the first from Colorado — to give birth while serving in Congress.
“Today marks the first day I am unable to fly to DC for votes due to travel restrictions ahead of my due date,” Pettersen wrote Monday in a statement on the social platform X.