i am skeptical that the house will reconvene at all this year, and maybe next.

Rec

Did he get a Republican or two to change their vote on Epstein?

They only needed 4 (R)s to sign it and just needed 1 more (D) that was one of the vacant seats (Grijalva).

Here is a link to who signed - Motion to Discharge a Committee from the Consideration of a Resolution

Here is the Resolution that they want discharged from Committee for a floor vote - H.Res.581 - Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 185) to advance responsible policies.

The 4 (R)s who signed were -

Massie
MTG
Boebert (shocking)
Mace

The Senate did NOT pass the bill that the House passed, they made changes as part of the deal. Now the House has to vote on the deal. If he doesn't call the House back into session, the shutdown continues and everyone will see why.

The only things I'm seeing are handshake agreements to maybe do some things Democrats demanded later.

Can't remember them all, but one of them is that SNAP is fully funded through the entire fiscal year, not just to the end of the CR in January. I think military pay and ATC pay were as well. Those provisions most definitely were not in the original CR passed by the House. The handshake agreement part was the vote in the Senate on the ACA tax credits, Mike Johnson has already refused to commit to a vote in the House on that. We can see where that is going to lead.

"Former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger has defeated Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in the race for Virginia’s governorship, after a long campaign with no primaries. Spanberger will succeed Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican who was barred from running again by state term limits."

I'm not sure of the date she resigned, but if it is recent, then this would now be an open seat, so a trade would leave them still one vote short.

She didn't run for reelection to Congress in 2024, so she is not a factor.

Here is the list of names of those who signed the discharge petition - https://clerk.house.gov/DischargePetition/2025090209

It includes 213 (D)s and 4 (R)s.

I was concerned that we were losing members who wanted to run for state offices... and especially HER seat - which was VA-7, and was originally the notorious Eric Cantor's seat before he was primaried by someone worse - a teabagger loon!!

One of the Vindman twins - Eugene, won that seat in 2024!!

AP Race Call: Democrat Eugene Vindman wins election to U.S. House in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District

Just a feeling

She should be paid. She does not work for Mike"little johnson" Johnson

Hell freezing over!