Overview

• In a letter to the Rules Committee chair, Julia Klöckner proposes predictable sitting times with fixed end points and more space between sitting weeks.
• Her plan introduces voting windows for routine votes and requires advance notice for roll‑call votes to reduce constant on‑site presence.
• She calls for a guaranteed right to join committee meetings remotely during a child’s first year wherever no secrecy rules apply.
• Klöckner underscores that MPs have no parental‑leave entitlement, with only short maternity protection and no routine excuse for fathers on the day of birth.
• Party leaders signal movement, as Union and SPD prepare to require roll‑call requests by the start of each sitting day after cross‑party talks sparked by Green MP Hanna Steinmüller’s baby‑in‑carrier speech.