Election reform and government transparency

The GOP doesn't like fair and transparent.  Mitch McConnell is making sure those ideas never even gets to the Senate floor. Because they can't win if they don't cheat.  But House Republicans have a plan.

House Democrats are set to pass pieces of their sweeping campaign finance and ethics reform bill after watching it go nowhere in the Senate.

House Democrats can’t get Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to hold a vote on their biggest legislative accomplishment.

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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is eyeing a new strategy that would take the caucus’ signature achievement this year — a sprawling elections and government transparency bill — and break it into bite-size pieces with fresh votes on the floor, according to multiple lawmakers and aides.

The move is intended to pressure Senate Republicans into taking up House bills and underscores a desire by Democratic leadership to spotlight all the legislation that has languished on the other side of the Capitol.

  Politico

Good for them. Make it obvious who's holding the line for fraudulent elections.

[HR-1, named For the People Act], which passed on a party-line vote in March, is expected to be sliced into separate pieces in the coming weeks on election security, voting rights and campaign finance.

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Separate votes would also help draw attention to little-noticed pieces of the initial bill, such as automatic voter registration or a crackdown on super PACs, which are priorities for the liberal grassroots [and] tightening the rules for TV ad disclosures or protecting state election security systems from foreign hacking.

“It’s unfortunate that the ‘grim reaper’ has chosen to conduct himself like this,” House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said, referring to a nickname McConnell recently gave himself for killing Democratic bills.

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[McConnell]has already rejected a wide range of ideas in H.R. 1 — like overhauling the Federal Election Commission and tightening restrictions for political ads. A spokesman for McConnell declined to comment on whether any of the Democrats’ bills could come to the floor, but there’s little reason to think he’ll reverse course.

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Democrats are indeed acting on core pieces of their agenda — passing legislation to curb gun violence, tackle the gender pay gap and bolster Obamacare — but the Senate has ignored the legislation.

No doubt. But the Dems need to keep bringing this up all the way to the 2020 election, so people are constantly reminded of what the GOP stands for.

Ditch Mitch.

UPDATE: