"discharge petitions successfully forcing action" is to the 119th congress as "suspension bills aren't just for post offices any more" was to the 118th.
Molly Reynolds
To be fair, Hill journalists were raised on "discharge petition, a procedure that never works in the real world" and they're suddenly living in a very different world.
Can't emphasize how much *this never happens* in the modern House. It just doesn't.
Jonathan Bernstein
Two odd phrasings from The Hill, which is very much not a mass-market publication and is written for an audience who can reasonably be presumed to know what a discharge petition is.
