Scoop: Dream Act Petition One Signature Away From Forcing a House Vote
Scoop: Dream Act Petition One Signature Away From Forcing a House Vote Discharge Petition No. 25 has reached 217 signatures on the American Dream and Promise Act. The 218th has to be a Republican. Pablo ManrĆquez Sep 2 WASHINGTON — They sign it by hand. That is the thing about a discharge petition that nobody outside this building ever remembers: there is no proxy, no app, no staffer sent down in a member’s place. You walk to the well of the House, you take the pen, and you write your name in a clerk’s book where anybody in America can go read it. Two hundred seventeen members have now done that on Discharge Petition No. 25 , Migrant Insider has learned. One more name and the American Dream and Promise Act gets a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives, and Speaker Mike Johnson can do nothing about it but watch. The petition belongs to Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas. The bill is H.R. 1414 . It would keep some undocumented people from being deported and give others a way to adj...