House Passes H.R. 1, Sending It Back to Campaign Trail

With passage of HR 1, House Democrats’ political money, ethics and voting overhaul, the mammoth proposal now heads exclusively to the 2020 campaign trail, where candidates in both parties say they believe their message will woo voters. The House passed the measure 234-193 Friday morning…. “Millions of Americans across the country have been looking at Washington and feeling like they’ve been left out and left behind. They see the influence that big money and special interests have up here in Washington, and they feel like their voice doesn’t matter,” said Rep. John Sarbanes, the Maryland Democrat who was the chief sponsor of the measure, during a pep-rally-themed press conference on the Capitol steps just minutes before the vote…. Sarbanes added that his bill was designed “to restore ethics and accountability to fight back against the interests of big money in our politics and to make it easier not harder to register and vote in America.”