Annie Karni

Hello.

Welcome to our humble abode.

It is about as humble as it gets.

This is our very exclusive closet that we get to sit in every day.

Of course.

I think where the most recent chapter of this starts is when the government shutdown ends and Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, is forced finally to swear in this Democrat from Arizona, Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election a few months ago.

And he was...

Slow rolling.

Slow rolling her swearing in.

And that was going to provide the 218th vote on this petition.

Yes.

Months ago, Thomas Massey, a Republican, and Ro Khanna, a Democrat, paired together to start this discharge petition.

Discharge petitions are just something that any member can do.

You have to get 218 signatures.

And if you do— Not nothing.

Nothing.

No, it's hard.

It's hard to get these things off the ground because that requires bipartisan support.

If you do, you can circumvent leadership and force them to bring a bill to the floor that they don't want to bring to the floor.

Right.