Democrats' first 2019 House bill is expansive campaign and voting rights reform - Polidicks

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-2018-midterms-policy_us_5bda0810e4b019a7ab59e44e The first bill Democrats plan to introduce and pass if they win control of the House of Representatives on Nov. 6 will be a comprehensive package of campaign finance, voting rights, re districting and ethics reforms. The presumptive H.R. 1 will be based on a House resolution introduced in 2018 by Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) and co-sponsored by 165 Democratic House members, including the entire party leadership. “Reform is going to be the first thing out of the gate,” he said. Sarbanes has been the leading proponent of campaign finance reform in the Democratic caucus for six years. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) appointed Sarbanes to head the party’s Democracy Reform Task Force at the beginning of 2017. Since then, he has worked with Democratic lawmakers to craft comprehensive legislation to tackle as many elements of democracy reform as possible and campaigned for candidates who would vote to pass such a bill in 2019. The proposed voting rights reforms include reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act, with constitutional language to restore federal preclearance (stripped by the Supreme Court’s Shelby v. Holder decision) for changes to voting laws in some jurisdictions. The bill would also institute automatic voter registration across the country and provide funding and expanded oversight power to the Election Assistance Commission. And the measure would require that nonpartisan commissions redraw congressional district maps. Ethics reforms in the proposed bill would cover the executive and legislative branches. The measure would include extending the cooling-off period before a government official may become a lobbyist, expanding conflict-of-interest laws to cover the president and vice president, give more compliance and oversight power to the executive branch’s Office of Government Ethics and bar lawmakers from sitting on corporate boards. The planned legislation would create a public financing system for congressional elections and provide matching funds for small-dollar donations raised by participating candidates. This part of the proposal comes from the Sarbanes’ Government by the People Act. Additional reforms would include increasing disclosure for dark money and digital advertising, strengthening laws prohibiting coordination between candidates and super PACs and barring lobbyists from bundling campaign contributions. Sarbanes said he believes the planned legislation ― and the Democrats’ commitment to pass it ― marks a defining moment to rebrand the party and tell voters what it will do if it controls the levers of government. “Every time you choose to give us the gavel, this is what we’re going to go to,” he said. “We’re going to try to fix this democracy. Give it to us in the House, and we will pass a broad democracy reform package. If you like what you see, then give us the gavel in the Senate. And if you want that to be signed into law and you want to really start to rebuild this democracy, then put someone in the White House who will pick up their pen and sign this legislation into law.”

But both parties are the same.

Republicans' 2018 HR1 was the tax cuts bill lol.

Just two sides of the same coin man, it's just preference. /s

Just try and name one thing the House has accomplished since except Nunes pulling bullshit.

Tfw making the government better in pretty much any way is a direct threat to the Republican Party.

Should be a Constitutional amendment.

I know you are making the japes and jocularity but just to sort of drive it home https://np.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/6tm9h5/cmv_over_the_next_1020_years_the_biggest_threat/dlm31u9/?context=3 Congressional voting records alone are the single greatest argument against the notion that the two parties are comparable in even the most remote sense There is a certain temptation to call it votes purely along partisan lines and dismiss it as partisan bickering, but this requires ignoring the issues at hand for every vote One party consistently votes against the interests of the people One party consistently votes against anything that would increase transparency and accountability One party consistently votes against anything that would rein in corporate influence One party consistently votes against anything that would diminish the influence of money in politics Against worker's rights, against women's rights, against poor people's rights, against social programs, against any kind of social spending

The only reason they have support is because they've beat cult like subservience into their base through browbeating and decades of propaganda.

fucking yes.

Well make it two centuries of their and Democratic Party existence too.