Bill Foster: “I have to say that there are things going on there that I do not recognize, and they seem to be directly antithetical to…”

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

Do you remember with AIG, the real problem with AIG falling into bankruptcy is that it would immediately put a bazillion of the European banks into violation of their capital requirements, which was major contagion that----

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

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.