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In United States parliamentary procedure, a discharge petition is a means of bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor for consideration without a report from the committee by "discharging" th
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon faced a revolt from his own party, which curtailed the Speaker's powers via the discharge petition and stripped him of direct leadership of the Rules Committee.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law passed by the 119th United States Congress and signed by President Donald Trump on November 19, 2025. It requires the U.S. attorney general to "make publicl
Discharge petition
…the House leadership approved rules to establish vote pairing. A second petition reached the required majority in November 2025 to bring forward the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The bill passed the House on November 18, 2025 by a vote of 427 to 1, formally passed the Senate by unanimous consent on November 19, 2025, and was…
Representative Thomas Massie was the first to file a discharge petition on the Epstein files.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Mugshot of Jeffrey Epstein in 2009
Lauren Boebert 117th U.S Congress