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had the signatures and there was nothing he could do, he is not delaying the vote.

He actually said, let's just get it out of the way.

But even assuming it does pass the House, it then has to go to the Senate and would ultimately require a signature from the president.

So

If these files are going to be released through this mechanism, they'd probably need like a veto proof majority in both the House and the Senate.

And they haven't had one of those on much of anything.

Yeah, that's a pretty high bar.

Well, Stephen, thank you for pouring through those documents this week.

And thanks for bringing your reporting to the podcast.

Tam, you and I will stick around.

We'll take a quick break and we'll have more in just a moment.

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