Bill Kristol: “Given the meltdown in the House, feels like a good time for Schumer and McConnell to forget about a cloture vote on the border bill and proceed ASAP to a clean Ukraine/Taiwan/Israel bill. Pass it, have discharge ready if Johnson won’t put it on floor.”
Given the meltdown in the House, feels like a good time for Schumer and McConnell to forget about a cloture vote on the border bill and proceed ASAP to a clean Ukraine/Taiwan/Israel bill. Pass it, have discharge ready if Johnson won’t put it on floor.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 7, 2024
by gym_fun
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Why an Israeli bill? They probably have enough weapons
Israel only happened because Ukraine was proving so successful against Russia. Hamas even attacked on Putin’s birthday. Everyone who thinks that was a coincidence is a sweetheart who cannot belive people do bad ythings to celebrate birthdays
Do it
glad bill kristol hasn’t sold out to russia. he doesn’t have much influence, but it is nice they haven’t all sold out.
“Discharge” in this context is fancy speak for “forced vote”. This is rarely used to the point that the last one was nearly ten years ago.
Basically, it’s something like a petition signed onto by House members to demand a vote be brought. It requires at least 218 members in order to work, and if it were used for all three of these it would likely not muster signatures – at least not with current conditions likely to be included in any such bill.
Individual bills may have a chance but all three together almost certainly would not.
Not from the US, what does it mean to discharge a bill?