BREAKING: The House approved a massive voting rights, campaign finance and ethics reform package
The House on Thursday passed a massive voting rights, campaign finance and ethics reform package — a centerpiece of the new Democratic majority’s agenda.
The legislation includes a national expansion of early voting, redistricting reform, making Election Day a federal holiday, automatic voter registration and stricter disclosure rules for a bevy of political activities. One particular ethics provision would mandate presidential and vice-presidential candidates to publicly disclose 10 years of tax returns — a nod to Trump’s refusal to do so despite decades of precedent.
“It is no coincidence that the largest freshman class since Watergate is also the class that is leading and pushing on this critical reform measure,” freshman Rep. Jason Crow said at a Thursday press conference. “We are the class born of voters’ frustrations with a broken system.”organized by the group End Citizens United that called for campaign finance and ethics reform to be the first item Democrats take up in the 116th Congress.
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