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Some hope an obscure maneuver could head off the debt crisis. Not so fast, experts say
While most signs point toward what could be a historically ugly and market-rattling debt limit fight in the coming months, some are hoping there could be a procedural off-ramp to avoid the crisis.
An obscure bit of congressional procedure called a discharge petition has been getting mentioned more and more. It would theoretically allow moderate Republicans to team up with Democrats to release a bill from committee and put it up for a full House vote — even over the objections of Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Even some lawmakers, such as Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), have brought it up in recent days suggesting it's a strong option.
But it's a complicated process, experts warn, and the question is whether disenchanted moderates like Fitzpatrick would be willing to not just break with their party, but also mount a drawn-out procedural fight over the issue.
“There are multiple steps and multiple actors involved, which in a collective body like Congress that moves as fast as it does, is a recipe for it not being done,” said Dr. Casey Burgat, the director of a Legislative Affairs program at George Washington University, about the discharge petition process.
“That's why we haven't seen it used that much, to say nothing of the politics of it."
And the challenge got steeper this week with the passage of a House rules package that empowers far-right Republicans even more.
Inside the discharge petition process: ‘They got to earn it’
When it comes to the discharge petition, getting six moderate Republicans to side with the current 212 Democrats to reach the magic number of 218 is only one step in a process that was explicitly designed to be difficult when it was introduced in the so-called revolt of 1910 against then-Speaker Joseph Cannon.
"I would not call the discharge petition ‘simple,’” said Molly Reynolds, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. “Because the discharge petition is a tool to circumvent the leadership, it has been historically unpopular with party leaders.”
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