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Rep. Jim McGovern@RepMcGovern Ā· Nov 14, 2025

šŸ§µFACT CHECK: Democrats didnā€™t object. It was the Republican chair who ruled your unanimous consent request out ofā€¦

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A Democratic member of Congress fact-checks criticism of their procedural move, explaining that it was a Republican chair who ruled a unanimous consent request out of order, not Democrats. They highlight procedural flaws in an alternative proposal that would have given the Speaker power to avoid sending the Epstein files bill to the Senate.

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    šŸ§µFACT CHECK: Democrats didnā€™t object. It was the Republican chair who ruled your unanimous consent request out of order.

    Tim Burchett@timburchett Ā· Nov 12, 2025

    I tried to release The Epstein Files immediately and the Democrats blocked it.

  2. #2

    Democrats do not control the House of Representatives. You tried to do something that was out of order and a Republican Member of Congress said your request was improper. ā¬‡ļø

  3. #3

    Now that Iā€™ve had time to think through what you sprung on everyone, I caught some big procedural loopholes: 1) You would have given theĀ speaker the authority to postpone the vote. 2) You would have allowed the speaker to NEVER send the bill to the Senate (which Johnson did a dozen times last Congress). Here's the rule from our discharge petition which prevents those things, in case you didn't read it: congress.gov/119/bills/hresā€¦

  4. #4

    Finallyā€”you DIDNā€™T EVEN SIGNĀ the discharge petition! Now you act like we arenā€™t going fast enough? Why didnā€™tĀ you care before we got 218 signatures?

  5. #5

    UPDATE: Itā€™s somehow *even worse* than I thought. I thought the Speaker could delay a voteā€”turns out, if Rep. Burchett had prevailed, there wouldnā€™t even BE a vote. He wanted to shield his Republican colleagues from having to take ANY up-or-down vote on releasing the files.

  6. #6

    Here are all the bills Speaker Johnson never even sent to the Senate last Congress. Mr. Burchettā€™s stunt yesterday would have ensured that the bill to release the Epstein Files was eligible for the same fate.