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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...harge-petition
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told donors at an Organizing for Action event Monday night that Democratic leadership in the House was weighing a discharge petition that would bring the Senate immigration bill directly to the floor for a vote.

Pelosi was asked about the legislative strategy during a dinner with about 70 supporters of the advocacy group, which grew out of the president's re-election campaign. She said leadership was still deciding to press forward with the legislative maneuver, noting that doing so would take 30 legislative days.

With a discharge petition, Pelosi could force a House vote on the Senate bill by gathering 218 signatures — meaning she'd need just 18 Republicans to sign on. That proposition has many Democrats who see the odds of a comprehensive immigration bill with a pathway to citizenship emerging organically from the House as low.

But the maneuver is seen as a direct rebuke of House leadership, and it would be tough to find that many GOP defectors who both support the bill and would be willing to upset leadership.

In an interview with Talking Points Memo earlier this month, Pelosi indicated she was shying away from that strategy.

“I fully subscribe to the idea that we should have a House bill … we shouldn’t have to just accept the Senate bill,” Pelosi said. “However, there is a Senate bill. And that gives leverage to those who say ‘now pass something in the House. Pass something and go to conference.’ If you don’t, there will be strong public sentiment, to take up, give us a vote, on the Senate bill.”

Pelosi also told donors at the OFA event that "we can win the House" in next year's midterm elections, and that she believed Democrats had a good bench of candidates.
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HA! I gotta see it to believe it...lol...
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I love Pelosi, but she should know that she'll be stoking the ire of the House Republicans if she were to do that. The House Republicans will use this as an excuse to stop working on immigration and talk about how Democrats are obstructionists, etc
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Pelosi is lying again. I do not like this woman!

The House has not received the bill yet, because Reid would not deliver the bill to the House. So, Pelosi could not file any discharge petition at all.

Pelosi is just pretending to be supportive of the Senate bill! Shame on her!!
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I really think this will happen and CIR will pass later this month.
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I really think this will happen and CIR will pass later this month.
dude shut up , seriously how old are you or who are you ? with all your predictions and nothing ever getting done , just shut it already
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dude shut up , seriously how old are you or who are you ? with all your predictions and nothing ever getting done , just shut it already
I hear ya.

I appreciate optimism...but DA User's posts are a total mockery to this website.

I never understood how he got to his post count with such pointless, mindless blabber...but herp derp...at least he is being "optimistic" or "kidding around"...lol...

Just ignore him is best advice I can give.
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I hear ya.

I appreciate optimism...but DA User's posts are a total mockery to this website.

I never understood how he got to his post count with such pointless, mindless blabber...but herp derp...at least he is being "optimistic" or "kidding around"...lol...

Just ignore him is best advice I can give.
ive tried believe me , but its like dam who is this kid ? . it gets pretty annoying , must be some white republican
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dude shut up , seriously how old are you or who are you ? with all your predictions and nothing ever getting done , just shut it already
My prediction of Senate passing CIR was correct though.
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I hope they take this route, even though its not likely to happen.
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