Senate Democrats Push to Match House’s Ethics and Election Reforms

Responding to action in the House, Senate Democrats unveiled their own version of a sweeping election and ethics reform bill Wednesday — one that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed never to bring to a vote. Dubbed, like the House bill, the “For the People Act, ” the Senate legislation includes a vast suite of proposals — ranging from measures meant to expand voting to provisions aimed at unmasking and diluting the power of moneyed interests to new ethical strictures for federal officials to a new public financing system for congressional campaigns. The bill, according to its lead author, Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), has the support of all 47 senators in the Democratic caucus.