the administration was finding ways to test this out before they moved into a more official posture on it.
Because when you step into that system, you step into a system that is owned by the people.
In my 14 years there, I have been intimately involved in protecting the principle that public service is a public trust.
The American people gave this Congress and this committee a mandate to restore our democracy and cleanup our government.
That's what H.R. 1 is, For the People. That's how we designed it.
Voter suppression is the problem, the obstacle course that has been set up that makes it so difficult for people to regi...
The most powerful form of protest and engagement an American citizen has is the right to vote.
You got to do all of these things together to reset the democracy in a place where it respects the average citizen out t...
Election day registration is a perfect antidote to a purge so that you can show up on election day.
So we have seen since 2010 a number of States move efforts to shut down opportunities for people to vote.
I'm grateful to have a vote in this committee, and I thank you, Chairman Cummings, for agreeing to hold a hearing on thi...
People I represent pay the highest taxes per capita in the United States.
We now find ourselves in an ethics crisis. The trigger was President Trump's refusal to divest his conflicting financial...
H.R. 1 kicks off what I hope will be a wave of reform.
This is not theater. We're trying to set the table on the democracy, make people feel more empowered.
People are sick and tired of being sick and tired, to use Fannie Lou Hamer's words, at a system that is run by somebody ...
If you just do one and you don't do the others, we're still frozen out; the system is still rigged.
there are strong statements about how broad their investigations are going to be, how much hardball they're going to be ...
