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https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/house-discharge-petition-ukraine-israel-aid/
The Democratic discharge petition would require 218 signatures to force a vote on the aid package on the House floor.
This means that the Democrats would need some number of Republicans to sign the petition, because they will lose some of their own votes because the Senate aid package includes aid to Israel.
Republican bastards have filed a competing discharge petition without humanitarian aid, that even if passed would delay aid by weeks or months if it passes.
I suspect that the Republican measure contains Lizard People aid.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Democrats are using a rarely successful legislative maneuver called a discharge petition to try to bypass Republican leaders.
Democrats, who hold 213 seats in the lower chamber, would need Republicans to sign the petition because they are likely to lose the support of progressives over the inclusion of Israel aid.
"What we’re asking our colleagues — Democrats and Republicans — is to sign the discharge petition that will bring to the floor the Senate national security bipartisan supplemental.
That is the fastest and easiest way to solve this issue," House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar of California said Tuesday during his weekly news conference.
But the Democrats’ discharge petition faces a competing effort from Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican from Pennsylvania who co-chairs the moderate and bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus.
Fitzpatrick has introduced a smaller bipartisan foreign aid bill that includes border security measures.
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