Vote Mama Foundation in the News:
A bipartisan measure led by Reps. Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) and Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) to allow proxy voting for new moms and dads in Congress failed this past month. This sparked a conversation on what state lawmakers could do to bring this to legislatures nationwide.
Vote Mama Foundation’s research was featured in The Associated Press (with additional mentions in The Washington Post, ABC News, U.S. News and World Report, and many more), and the story talked about how state lawmakers wishing to enact proxy voting could follow a similar path to Campaign Funds for Childcare, which has been authorized in more than 75 percent of the country since 2018. Read the full story here!