Published: 1/30/2021 10:00:05 PM
Modified: 1/30/2021 10:00:03 PM
The For the People Act would help
Two GOP walls are now inactive: Donald Trump’s stupid and wasteful border wall, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s stone wall against H.R. 1, the For the People Act, which was introduced as the first bill in the 116th Congress. It passed the House in 2019, but McConnell immediately said it’s “not going to go anywhere in the Senate,” and it died on his desk.
But 2021 is a new time for “we the people,” and a huge setback for the reactionary GOP.
H.R. 1 (and the Senate version, S. 1) are now before the 117th Congress, and McConnell — now the Senate minority leader — cannot simply block it.