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On the recordMarch 10, 2020
1 year ago, almost to the day, this House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the For the People Act, a transformative anticorruption and clean elections bill that would give people their voice back in their own democracy. It would fix gerrymandering; it would fix voting; it would fix ethics; it would protect the ballot box; it would push back against foreign interference and foreign disinformation coming into our campaigns; and it would lift up the voices of average Americans in competing with big money and lobbyists here in Washington. It would change the status quo so every American would feel that their voice counts here, that their opinion matters, and that that is how we make policy. Unfortunately, Mitch McConnell, the majority leader in the United States Senate, has refused to bring H.R. 1 to the floor of the United States Senate. One whole year of folding his arms at the gates of our democracy and saying to the American people: You shall not pass. Madam Speaker, we are not going to be deterred; we are not going be to be diverted; and we are not going to be defeated. We are going to keep pressing on to pass H.R. 1 for the people and restore the voices of the American people. ____________________
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland
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Mar 10, 2020

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