by jpitney | Sep 28, 2024 | Congress, House of Representatives
Olivia Beavers and Jordain Carney at Politico: Enough Republicans and Democrats signed onto a bipartisan discharge petition to force a vote on the Social Security Fairness Act — a bill that eliminates two provisions that limit benefits for some Americans who also...
by jpitney | Mar 22, 2024 | Congress, House of Representatives, Ukraine
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Discharge petitions are seldom successful. According to data compiled by Brookings Institution senior fellow Sarah Binder, of the over 639 discharge petitions introduced from 1935 to 2022, roughly 4 percent have been successful. Binder...
by jpitney | Jan 24, 2023 | Congress, Debt, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Those who think a discharge petition is an EZ-pass to resolving the debt crisis are driving against traffic. A few years ago, when I charted all the discharge petitions filed from the 90th to 115th Congresses (1967-2018), I found that,...
