Senator Chuck Schumer
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And Johnson, I have found to be a very political animal on most of these things, or too many, on too many of these things.
And he's, you know, he's from a very conservative district.
By the way, his district, this is another thing, his is one of the highest districts in losing health care dollars in the country because Louisiana doesn't do that much for health care.
Anyway, so there's something called, it's very arcane, but it's called a discharge petition.
And if you get 218 congressmen to sign the discharge petition, it has to come to the floor and then it would pass.
There are now 217 who have signed it.
And there's a newly elected congresswoman named Grijalva from Arizona.
Her father passed away and she was just elected to the seat.
Ah, and you bring up another point that I got to make.
If she is seated, there's 218 and the whole Johnson and the whole Epstein files are released.
I have it in the video that we talked about a minute ago.
That's one of the main reasons.
The point I should make now is Johnson has not had the House in session for three weeks.
How do you negotiate a deal if none of them are around and no one's talking to each other?
Why?
First, because he's afraid of bringing this to the floor and he thought he could bamboozle us into doing it.
But now he's seeing they've had 10 votes in each case.
It's been the same vote and they keep doing it over and over again.
But second, he's afraid of the Epstein files.
Because if he brings the Congress back into session, he's going to have to swear in Ms.