Bill Foster: “I understand that you wanted to bring clarity and simplification to CRA evaluations, and I appreciate that.”

This made the discharge petition much more effective at its intended purpose, which is sort of to operate as a safety valve against, you know, the Speaker's rather dictatorial power.

If you made it anonymous, you would allow Members to sort of probe support for centrist legislation.

Frankly, when I read about this, it triggered my PTSD from the AIG situation with credit default swaps during the financial crisis.

I think we should consider adopting this in the coming session of Congress, at least on a temporary basis.