In an interview with Fox News Digital, prominent Congresswoman Nancy Mace, R-South Carolina, said, "As a woman and as a mom," she does not support proxy voting exceptions for new mothers in Congress, a hotly debated question that brought the House to a grinding halt this week. (Reuters/Mike Segar; AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite; Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
After Democrats and nine Republicans blocked an effort to sideline the issue, prompting Johnson to call the House into recess for the rest of the week, Mace said she is an "absolute no" on the question.
"I'm an absolute no on any and all proxy voting. It's wrong," Mace told Fox News Digital.
"We have a job. We have a constitutional duty to show up here and work, and we should."
Asked whether any exceptions should be made for new mothers and fathers in Congress, Mace answered, "Nope, none, zero."
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Mace, who represents a state with many military bases, says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is doing a "remarkable job." (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. ShaTyra Cox)
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"I love what Pete Hegseth is doing," she added. "I think he's doing a remarkable job, and he's bringing so much transparency to DOD and the Pentagon. And where they failed, then he is trying to pick up the pieces and put it back together, including how men and women are treated in uniform and how we are combat-ready."
Despite changes to standards, Mace predicted a "major uptick with recruitment" in all military branches under Trump and Hegseth’s leadership, saying, "I think we've got great things to come. Our enemies should be scared."
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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