"PELOSI" pkg bill HR1: Campaign FIN, voter REG laws (felon rights RESTORED), ethics

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"PELOSI" pkg bill HR1: Campaign FIN, voter REG laws (felon rights RESTORED), ethics

From those "RADICALS" at Roll Call... (Roll call is the US HOUSE and SENATE, "Capitol Hill" news source)


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Posted Jan 4, 2019 6:00 AM

Lindsey McPherson
@lindsemcpherson

House Democrats unveil first major legislative package of voting, campaign finance and ethics overhauls

Committees will soon begin marking up aspects of the package ahead of floor vote on H.R. 1
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., plan to bring a bill to the floor in the coming weeks to overhaul voting and campaign finance laws. Democrats are introducing it as H.R. 1 to signal that it’s their top priority. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Automatic voter registration, independent redistricting commissions, super PAC restrictions, forced release of presidential tax returns — these are just a handful of the provisions in a massive government overhaul package House Democrats will formally unveil Friday, according to a summary of the legislation obtained by Roll Call.

The package is being introduced as H.R. 1 to show that it’s the top priority of the new Democratic majority. Committees with jurisdiction over the measures will hold markups on the legislation before the package is brought to the floor sometime later this month or early in February.

H.R. 1 features a hodgepodge of policies Democrats have long promoted as solutions for protecting voters’ rights and expanding access to the polls, reducing the role of so-called dark money in politics, and strengthening federal ethics laws...
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https://www.rollcall.com/news/polit...-voting-campaign-finance-and-ethics-overhauls
 
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Perhaps 'some' boardmembers don't understand RESTORATION of ones CIVIL rights once one has done their time.


FROM CNS ....

(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) introduced the first piece of legislation for the newly convened 116th Congress and it is a political reform bill that includes a provision that would force states to allow convicted felons to vote as long as they were no longer actually in prison.

“H.R. 1 will create automatic voter registration across the country; ensure that individuals who have completed felony sentences have their full rights restored; expand early voting and simplify absentee voting; and modernize the U.S. voting system,” says a summary of the bill released by Pelosi.
 
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