'Convoluted arrangement': Johnson strikes deal to end bitter GOP infighting

House Speaker Mike Johnson ended his weeklong stalemate with congressional Republicans, whose insistence that members of Congress on maternity leave should be able to vote from home sparked an internal civil war – and led him to cancel all floor votes for the remainder of the week.

But the start of the new week brought a fresh agreement that effectively ended the bipartisan push to change House rules to allow proxy voting for new parents, The New York Times reported Monday. The “watered-down...