Democrats to file a discharge petition to force a vote

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5. It's for show. Which is fine.

For a discharge petition to succeed, it must have the public support of a majority of the House. Thus, if every Democrat signed the discharge petition, it would still need the public support of nearly two dozen House members. That is extremely unlikely to happen.

The real purpose for it is that the Democrats can use the absence of a republican member's name on the petition against them in campaign advertising -- labeling that person as someone who would not support there being a vote on the creation of an independent investigative committee.