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Discharge Petition to the Rescue?! [1]

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Date: 2023-05-02

Tonight on MSNBC’s Last Word, Lawrence O’Donnell outlined how the House Dems may yet outmaneuver Barely Speaker McCarthy on the Debt Ceiling. Business Insider also has a more detailed look at the Discharge Petition route toward dealing with the approaching fiscal crisis --

The Democratic strategy requires:

A piece of legislation that has sat in committee for at least 30 days while the House is in session that can be used as the basis of the petition.

218 petition signatures — meaning every single Democratic member of the House, as well as five Republicans willing to split with party leadership to force a vote on the stalled bill.

If the petition gets the 218 required votes, it will be brought to the floor for a vote, even if not it is not brought to the floor by Speaker McCarthy, and can then be amended to include the debt ceiling vote.

Unbeknownst to most, the wheels have been in motion for this plan since January 30, when Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, a Democrat from California, introduced a bill called the "Breaking the Gridlock Act" — which was never meant to pass.

Instead, the overly broad bill contains proposals that would protect veterans from the IRS, create a task force supporting seniors raising their grandchildren, change the name of a law regarding Congressional stock trading, and other initiatives, forcing it to be reviewed by 20 committees, where the bill languished, unreviewed, for months.

Now, if Democrats can secure enough signatures to push the discharge petition forward, the "Breaking the Gridlock Act" could serve as the catalyst to force the House to vote on it and address the looming debt ceiling crisis.

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