And the discharge petition, where you can get to 218 signatures on a piece of legislation and over the objection of the President and the speaker, forcing up a down vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. We've now done that six different times...eight is more in those two Congresses than at any other point in the last 100 years in the House of Representatives. in the last 100 years in the House of Representatives. And so we've had them on the run legislatively. And these have been on interesting issues. (05:43–06:03)
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Asserts that using discharge petitions eight times in two Congresses is unprecedented in the last 100 years.
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