Washington (CNN) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell faced backlash from Democrats for calling their House bill a "power grab" as it included a provision to make Election Day a federal holiday, among other changes.

The sweeping legislation HR 1, or what Democrats are calling the "For the People Act," would also require presidential candidates to release their tax returns, adds a matching system for small donations, requires super PACs to disclose their donors who give more than $10,000, and prohibits voter purging.

The Kentucky Republican mocked the bill as the "Democratic Politician Protection Act" and argued that it rewrites the "the rules of Americans politics for the exclusive benefit of the Democratic Party."

He argued that the bill would "victimize every American taxpayer by pouring their money into expensive new subsidies that don't ever pass the laugh test."

"Their bill would make Election Day a new paid holiday for government workers, and create an additional brand new paid leave benefit for up to six days for any federal bureaucrat who decides they'd like to hang out at the polls during an election," McConnell said.

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