That's what's significant about these recent disclosures and subsequent wave of interest. Informed people may not have found them surprising, but to say "what's the big deal?" is a mistake. The big deal is the state change in the political discourse.

What's politically expedient is taking advantage of embarrassments to an opposing party's administration. I disagree with you that this is action since it achieves nothing and wouldn't even achieve anything if it passed. It's the legislative equivalent of a photo op.