Has he already assigned it to committee? A discharge petition is used to extract a bill from being stuck in committee. One of the Speaker’s duties, however, is to assign bills to committees in the first place. The easiest way for him to block the bill is to simply never do this. It enters the House, and then it just sits there, going nowhere, forever. Unable to move to step 1.
Mike Johnson would then be what needs to be discharged.
Has he already assigned it to committee? A discharge petition is used to extract a bill from being stuck in committee. One of the Speaker’s duties, however, is to assign bills to committees in the first place. The easiest way for him to block the bill is to simply never do this. It enters the House, and then it just sits there, going nowhere, forever. Unable to move to step 1.
Mike Johnson would then be what needs to be discharged.
Since the bill originated in the senate, this doesn’t appear to be a limitation.