2026-03-05

I can ask! This is a boring (but relevant) process piece - if I’m not mistaken, the way this came to the floor was unusual. The rushed process prevented people from proposing constructive amendments, so part of it is up to the original authors being open to that. GOP controls floor and that’s why the process piece is relevant. How things get to the floor is a huge part of if they can get a successful vote in the first place and if they can come back again. If this bill was eligible to be filed as something known as a privileged resolution, then you can bypass the speaker and bring it to the floor to trigger an immediate vote. If that was the case here then the answer is yes, especially if the original authors are open. There is a very small class of bills eligible to be filed this way, w…

FYI - there’s more details and I think we can get there. There were real problems in the text and they rushed the vote so it couldn’t get fixed in time to protect victims

The DOJ has also hurt victims while protecting predators in their botched release of the files! They did NOT protect victim info in many files, leaving many victims harmed and further violated while DOJ continues to redact the names of the powerful. We should protect those hurt

Yes, absolutely. And there are ways for members to face consequences and public disclosure while also protecting victims. We can start with identifying members who have actually expended taxpayer funds on settlements, instead of blurring debunked claims with real ones - which also hurts victims further.