Don Wolfensberger at The Hill:
According to a 2002 Congressional Research Service report by Rick Beth, between 1931 and 2002, the House adopted only 26 discharge petitions — 4.6 percent of 563 filed, though another 42 petitions, 7.5 percent, were considered by other means. Subsequent data I have compiled show 169 petitions were filed in the 107th through 119th congresses (2001-2025). Until the current 119th Congress only a handful made it onto the discharge calendar. For instance, in the 118th Congress (2023-24), 20 discharge petitions were filed, of which only two — 10 percent — made it onto the calendar.
However, in the first session of this 119th Congress, 13 discharge motions were filed, of which four — 31 percent — made it onto the discharge calendar. They ran the gamut from a rule to permit members who are new parents to vote from home by proxy, to directing the Justice Department to release all its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, to the most recent ObamaCare subsidy extension.