'Whole idea of proxy voting is the concern': Top Republican digs in amid GOP rule fight

House Republican leaders are showing no signs of compromising in their bitter fight with their own rank and file over whether to allow members of Congress who need maternity leave to vote from home, with Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) appearing to tell CNN's Manu Raju that it's now more about keeping the caucus in line than it is about the merits of the rule change itself.

A bipartisan discharge petition is circulating to change House rules to allow proxy voting for new moms, with...