Bill Hits Rare Minimum Threshold of Support to Force Vote on House Floor

Bill Hits Rare Minimum Threshold of Support to Force Vote on House Floor

The House will be forced to vote on a bill that would give federal tax relief to victims of natural disasters due to a mechanism that has rarely succeeded. A discharge petition to force a vote on the Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2023, which would also give federal tax relief to those impacted by the February 2023 toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. A discharge petition must have 218 signatures to force a vote on the House floor…