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The Discharge Board
A bill stuck in committee reaches the House floor the moment 218 members sign a piece of paper. Every signature is public and updated daily. Almost nobody looks.
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What a discharge petition is. When committee leadership refuses to move a bill, any member can file a petition to pull it to the floor anyway. At 218 signatures the committee is discharged, the Speaker must schedule the vote within two legislative days, and leadership cannot stop it.
Why a bill with broad support can sit a few signatures short. Signing is a public act against the leadership of your own party, and whichever party holds the majority treats it that way. A floor vote is neither public in the same way nor permanent. That distance measures political cost, not sincerity, which is why this page is an index and not a scorecard.
Why the bill number often tells you nothing. The House routinely files these petitions against placeholder bills with deliberately generic titles, and the real policy arrives later as a substitute that replaces the entire text. One bill number on this board is the named vehicle for three unrelated policies. The descriptions here say what each petition would actually put on the floor.
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Sorted by signatures remaining. Each row opens the Clerk's own record for that petition, where the authoritative signature roster lives, including the party breakdown.
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Reached 218
Closed to further signatures. Once a petition reaches the threshold no name can be removed.
What is verified and what is not. Signature totals, party splits, filing dates and petition links are counted from the House Clerk's own roster pages on the date shown above, one petition at a time, and every row links to the roster it was counted from. Party is reported as a number and never as a colour, because this is an index of a procedure and not a scoreboard. A Cross-party label means the roster carries signatures from more than one party. Where a substitute amendment has not been filed as text, the description reflects the sponsors' stated intent and is labelled Sponsors say.
How to check your own representative. Open any petition above and use the state and party filters on the Clerk's page. There is no way to search across all petitions by member, which is the reason this index exists.
What this board does not do. It takes no position on any bill, endorses or opposes no member or party, and characterizes no one's motives. It reports two things the government already publishes: how many members have signed, and how many more are needed. It never adds one petition's signatures to another's, because members sign more than one and the Clerk does not publish the overlap.
One thing worth knowing. The 218 threshold is a House rule, not a law. It can only be changed in the rules package adopted at the start of a new Congress.
Source: Clerk of the House, Discharge Petitions. The Clerk is the record. Where this page and the Clerk disagree, the Clerk is right and we want to know: contact@mainstreetlobby.com.