House Democrats Introduce Anti-Corruption Bill As Symbolic 1st Act

It isn’t your usual bill, the For The People Act introduced Friday by House Democrats. Also known as HR 1, symbolically their first legislation, it is a 571-page compendium of existing problems and proposed solutions in four political hot zones: voting, political money, redistricting and ethics.

A pledge to pass the bill was a common theme among Democratic House candidates last year.

If the bill ever becomes law, it’s unlikely to happen this year. Republicans control the Senate, President Trump is in the White House, and the GOP vehemently opposes the basic approach of HR 1.

“This is obviously a pretty radical expansion of the regulation of political speech,” said David Keating, president of the conservative Institute for Free Speech. “If this bill had become law now,” he said, anti-Trump groups “would find it very difficult to speak as effectively as they have over the past two years.”

Some of the bill’s provisions push the envelope, including reaching into state law. To settle the controversy over redistricting, the bill would simply take away the power of state legislatures to draw congressional districts and have independent commissions do it instead. That way, presumably, the local politicians could no longer gerrymander the districts to help their party and cripple the opposition. Read more

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House Democrats Introduce Anti-Corruption Bill As Symbolic 1st Act

It isn’t your usual bill, the For The People Act introduced Friday by House Democrats. Also known as HR 1, symbolically their first legislation, it is a 571-page compendium of existing problems and proposed solutions in four political hot zones: voting, political money, redistricting and ethics.

House Democrats Introduce Anti-Corruption Bill As Symbolic 1st Act

It isn’t your usual bill, the For The People Act introduced Friday by House Democrats. Also known as HR 1, symbolically their first legislation, it is a 571-page compendium of existing problems and proposed solutions in four political hot zones: voting, political money, redistricting and ethics.