BURSTRep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) on Monday announced the birth of a baby girl, becoming the 15th congresswoman to give birth while serving in office.
Cammack said her daughter, Augusta Dair, was born Aug. 14 “after a very long & tough labor.”
“Baby is doing great and already showing us her sweet and sassy personality while Mom is speedily recovering,” Cammack wrote in a post on the social platform X that included a photo of her daughter.
She thanked her husband and medical team for their help through what she described as a difficult time.
"We would like to thank the most incredible team of doctors and nurses that saw us through a very tough and emotional six days. Never could we have asked for a better team to take care of our family,” she said.
Cammack is the 15th congresswoman to give birth in office and the fourth in the past two years: Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.) had her son in January 2025; Jenniffer González-Colón (R), the former nonvoting member from Puerto Rico, had twins in February 2024; and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) had her son in August 2023.
A bipartisan push to allow new parents to vote by proxy in the House gained momentum earlier this year, when Luna teamed up with Pettersen to force a vote on the Democrat’s proxy voting resolution.
Luna successfully executed a discharge petition on the resolution but never forced a vote on it, ultimately striking a deal with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to formalize “vote pairing.”
The procedure allows an absent lawmaker — in this case, a new mother — to coordinate with another member voting opposite their stance who is willing to abstain from the vote. That way the new mother’s absence is canceled out. The present member would state for the Congressional Record how both lawmakers would have voted.