{"id":34577,"date":"2018-11-30T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34577"},"modified":"2018-11-30T12:16:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:16:24","slug":"h-r-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/30\/h-r-1\/","title":{"rendered":"H.R. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soon we will regain something we have not seen for almost two years.  It is a world in which The Democratic Party shares in the power of government.  House Democrats are about to unveil their first bill of the coming year: H.R. 1<\/font><\/p>\n

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House Democrats are set to unveil their first piece of legislation for the newly elected Congress, a bill they\u2019re symbolically calling H.R. 1, that aims to expand voting access.<\/p>\n

After an election marked in large part by voting rights issues, including Stacey Abrams\u2019 refusal to concede<\/a> in the Georgia gubernatorial race and the passage of Amendment 4 in Florida, which expanded voting rights to more than 1 million ex-felons, the House Democrats\u2019 first bill reportedly creates a national voter registration system and would expand access to early online voting.<\/p>\n

According to The Washington Post<\/a>, Democrats will unveil the bill Friday. In addition to the focus on voting rights, the bill would also reportedly create new donor disclosure requirements for political organizations and provisions for public financing for elections, including a system that would multiply small dollar donations to campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Post also reported that it would end most first-class travel for federal officials and mandate a new ethical code for the Supreme Court, though the outlet did not report details about what the code would include.<\/p>\n

Finally, the bill would include a requirement that presidents release their tax returns, something President Trump has refused to do…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Of course, it will never see passage in the Senate, but the elements have one thing in common.  Republican Senators will have to go on record for opposing them, demonstrating to voters which party favors them and which doesn’t.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soon we will regain something we have not seen for almost two years.  It is a world in which The Democratic Party shares in the power of government.  House Democrats are about to unveil their first bill of the coming year: H.R. 1 House Democrats are set to unveil their first piece of legislation for […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}