From
Greg Sargent:
Dems have hit on a way to use a “discharge petition,” which forces a
House vote if a majority of Representatives signs it, to try to force
the issue. Previously, it was thought this could not work, because a
discharge petition takes 30 legislative days to ripen, so if this were
tried with the clean CR that passed the Senate, this couldn’t bear fruit
until some time in November.
But now House Democrats say they have found a previously filed bill to use as a discharge petition — one that would fund the government at sequester levels.
It would take 218 signatures on the petition to force an up or down vote in the House on a clean Continuing Resolution, meaning 18 Republicans would have to sign the petition as well as every Democrat. We would then see how many of the "moderate" =
snicker= Republicans in the House
who've gone on record saying they would vote for a clean CR would actually vote for it and end the Republican government shutdown. Worth a try.
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