Thanks.
I had a number of things come to mind.
I was listening to you, Ms. Moore, so I'm going to focus my questions mainly towards you. The day care issue has been adequately covered, so I'll skip by it. I think it's been talked about quite a bit today. You mentioned a couple of things.
One that struck me was your mentioning the idea of parental leave. I think you indicated that it wasn't really leave you were seeking; it was more special accommodations that would be available for mothers in, I think you said, the first six months after a child is born. It was the ability to work remotely, for things such as speeches and voting and things like those.
Was that what I heard? Did you want to elaborate on that a bit?
The second question.... I'll just ask them both at the same time, and you can elaborate on both of them. You mentioned for votes specifically the idea, when there are longer voting blocks—when voting takes more than two hours, I think you said—of building in breaks of some kind.
I could see, especially when you think of some of the marathon votes we've had, that this would obviously be helpful for mothers or fathers with children, but there are probably also a number of other members for whom it would be helpful. I know there have been members who had other medical issues, or similar things, that they were dealing with, and it was certainly difficult for them during some of those longer voting periods.
I would be curious to hear whether you had any specific thoughts or proposals on that aspect of building breaks into a longer voting session.