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Have a chance to vote on that bill. that is a discharge petition and that is technically how you get around the speaker if you've got a popular bill that the speaker won't let you vote on. this is something that's almost never used. the last time it worked was more than ten years ago on an overhaul of campaign finance laws. but at least on paper this is an option. and house democrats said today that they're going to try to. they're going to start one. start a discharge petition on the minimum wage next week. and while that was being announced today from the house democratic retreat, this is wh...

Get around that problem of the speaker not bringing it up for a vote by having a majority of congress, 218 members of congress, sign a petition saying that they would like, please, to have a chance to vote on that bill. that is a discharge petition and that is technically how you get around the speaker if you've got a popular bill that the speaker won't let you vote on. this is something that's almost never used. the last time it worked was more than ten years ago on an overhaul of campaign finance laws. but at least on paper this is an option. and house democrats said today that they're going...