If it’s so important they could have expedited. All that “release the memo” crap was needed, to get them to do something.
The only point of #ReleaseTheMemo was to pressure Ryan and the rest of the House Leadership not to stand in the way of the Intel Committee to force a vote by the whole House.
And before you go into the usual Ryan-is-a-tool-of-the-Devil routine, The Speaker was under enormous pressure from both the DOJ and the FBI to suppress the the memo, and he needed the public support.