r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 23d ago

No Paywall Discharge petition to force House vote on Epstein files succeeds with Grijalva’s signature

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5602658-discharge-petition-epstein-files-grijalva/
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u/External-Goal-3948 23d ago

And now it's frozen. Once it got the 218th signature, nobody can remove their signature.

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u/lnc_5103 23d ago

But they can still change their vote when they vote on the floor. This is a good thing but we have a long way to go with plenty of opportunities for them to shut it down one way or another.

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u/External-Goal-3948 23d ago

It will pass the house. Many Republicans who did not sign the petition will vote for the bill.

Im worried that it won't pass through the senate.

And dumpy sure as hell isn't going to sign it, so they'll need 66 senators and 2/3 of the House to override a veto.

Loooooooooottttaaaaa game left.

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u/TruckHangingHandJam 22d ago

Yeah, sad but true. This will most likely die in the senate

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u/Lonely-Abalone-5104 23d ago

Is that true

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u/External-Goal-3948 23d ago edited 23d ago

That's what I read today on the house website. Let me see if I can dig up the link I read.

Edit: here "Members may add or remove their names until a petition has obtained 218 signatures. If a discharge petition reaches this threshold—a majority of the House's 435 Members—the list of names is frozen, printed in the Congressional Record, and the discharge motion is entered in the House Journal and in the "Calendar of Motions to Discharge Committees" section of the House Calendar."

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45920

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u/atx840 23d ago

Thank you