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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-11-12T21:24:45.890Z
Grijalva just signed the Epstein discharge petition.
— Aaron Fritschner (@fritschner.bsky.social) 2025-11-12T21:24:57.096Z
It now has the 218 signatures necessary to start the clock that will, in a few weeks, trigger floor votes on the underlying bill to require release of the full Epstein files.
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"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva (Original Post)
demmiblue
8 hrs ago
OP
I hope you're right.Cause Nicole Wallace was talking about mace.Still changing her vote
Tribetime
8 hrs ago
#3
Wiz Imp
(8,081 posts)1. And despite Trump's desperate flailing to get Mace and/or Boebert to remove
their signatures, he FAILED big time and all 218 signatures are now frozen and can't be retracted!!!
Tribetime
(6,959 posts)3. I hope you're right.Cause Nicole Wallace was talking about mace.Still changing her vote
Wiz Imp
(8,081 posts)5. It's true. See this from Congress.gov
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45920
Members may add or remove their names until a petition has obtained 218 signatures. If a discharge petition reaches this thresholda majority of the House's 435 Membersthe 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. Once on the Calendar, an additional seven legislative days must elapse before a Member who signed the petition may notify the House in a floor statement of an intention to offer the discharge motion on the floor. The motion may then be called up by that Member "at a time or place, designated by the Speaker, in the legislative schedule within two legislative days after the day on which a Member whose signature appears thereon announces to the House an intention to offer the motion."5 A discharge motion is not in order, however, during the last six days of a congressional session.
Lifeafter70
(721 posts)2. I watched it live
She was fantastic I'm dancing with joy that she was finally sworn in.
CaliforniaPeggy
(155,704 posts)4. Yay! Good for her!