It is not something that see every day at the Congress audience on the economy and interest rates.
When the members of the Congress, the president of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, ravaged Tuesday on Tuesday, a legislator asked questions with their 5 -month -old baby hair, twisting in their lap.
Democratic representative Brittany Pettersen took her son Sam to the audience and somehow could keep him quiet while she asked Powell about monetary policy.
Pettersen, who has Do not shy away to include your child As part of his official duties of Capitol HillHe asked Powell about national debt, since Sam, dressed in a yellow monkey, seemed less than interested.
At one point, Powell asked Pettersen to repeat one of his questions.
“I’m going to do this the best I can with Sam here,” replied the Democrat of Colorado with a smile.
The representative Brittany Pettersen owns her son Sam while interrogating the president of the Board of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, during a hearing of the Financial Services Committee of the House of Representatives in Capitol Hill, on June 24, 2025, in Washington.
Financial Services Committee of the House of Representatives
At the end of Pettersen’s assigned time for questions, Powell thanked him, and recognized his little Tagalong, with “And thanks, Sam”.
While it was Not Sam’s first audience – That was in April, babies and young children are not common in the Capitol.
“The representative Pettersen is on the waiting list for child care as most Americans. And like all mothers, he finds a way to make it work,” said Pettersen communications director Meg Maclaren, about Sam’s appearance at the audience on Tuesday.
Earlier this year, Pettersen celebrated Sam then 9 weeks during a passionate speech on the floor of the house. He returned early from a free time to speak in support of a bipartisan effort to allow the vote of power to the legislators who, as it is, are new parents.
“I think we can accommodate for the new challenges in the workplace here in Congress to ensure that more women and young families can be represented here now,” he said while Sam lulled and shrieked in his arms.
The measure failed in the Chamber in April, but Pettersen has continued to press the privileges of the parents for the members of the Congress, saying that “Congress was not made for women” in a Publish X in April.
Pettersen is only member 13 of the House of Representatives to give birth while in Congress.
“That is not because moms do not belong, this place was not built for us,” he wrote in a Publish in x.
