Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Johnson wanting to change the rules because of Epstein.

After a pretty embarrassing defeat for Trump, after a discharge petition was used to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. Johnson reportedly

wants to change the rules and make discharge petitions harder. As it stands, if 218 members

of the House of Representatives sign on to a discharge petition, it moves forward. Incidentally, that's the same number of

representatives needed to win a vote. Johnson reportedly wants to make this more difficult.

The process almost always fails as it is. In the last 90 years, discharge petitions were attempted 673 times. About 1% actually make it to

becoming law. Less than 10% actually gather the necessary number of signatures to force a vote.

Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana said, quote,

I'd like to see a higher threshold for a lot of these motions, you know, privileged motions,

discharge petitions. Can we actually just pause and take a moment to fully process this?

Because it's way more than just an obscure rule change in the House.

For a discharge petition to work, it needs the support of a majority of Congress.

What possible reason does Republican leadership have for wanting to be able to reject the wishes

of the American people, as stated through their representatives?

The job of the House of Representatives is to represent the people, not put legislation on the

back burner and do the president's bidding. A discharge petition is generally used when the Speaker of the House won't move forward on a bill that the American people want.

The idea that we need more obstruction and need to concentrate power into fewer hands is laughable.

Republican leadership seems upset that discharge petitions are being used more and more often.

In the last 90 years, about half of the successful discharge petitions that actually became law

occurred under Mike Johnson's speakership.

The problem isn't the discharge petition. The problem is a speaker that doesn't allow legislation

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