A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House has pulled off a rare feat: drawing enough support through a procedural maneuver known as a discharge petition to force a bill to the floor for just the third time in over 20 years.
The effort to force a vote on legislation providing tax relief to disaster victims succeeded due to backing from conservative Republicans from affected states and Democrats leveraging their influence in the narrowly divided House.
Discharge petitions are historically used as a last-resort measure by the minority party to bring majority-backed legislation to a vote, bypassing the leadership's opposition. The success of such petitions is rare due to hesitance within the majority party to challenge leadership.
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