According to Alex Wagner, a member of the House Ethics Committee could go onto the House floor & enter the Gaetz report

[Celerity]

into the public record.

It would be a breach of previous protocol but it is allowed.


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[pfitz59]

1. Just do it already

or give it straight to the press

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2. Reading it into the Congressional Record gives them immunity from legal retaliation (Speech and Debate Clause)

that would not be the case with a leak to the press.

[Skittles]

3. I cannot imagine what it could say

that would make Matt Fucking Gaetz look even more disgusting than we know him to be

[CincyDem]

4. It is how the full Pentegon Papers were publically released.

IIRC, Alaska Senator Mike Gravel was chair of some obscure sub-committee on government buildings. He called a committee meeting one night at about 1am after giving the required 3 hours notice. The purpose was to examine something about rural post offices. Nobody but him showed up.

He had Alaska rep, forget who, come in to testify about the lack of postal coverage in his district.

Gravel launched into a screed about why the government did not have funds to build new post offices, highlighting other ways money was being spent on thing like, for example, this war in Vietnam.

In fact, a recent study from the Rand Company says blah blah blah about the cost. Then he says “I request unanimous consent to place the entire report into the record…all opposed?” Following the silence, as he was the only sub committee member in the room, he said “So moved”.

And with that, they were public record.

Doubt it could happen today but it was a hell of a move at the time. Sure would be fun though.