first substantive bill. their voting as of last night to keep the government open, that s now in the senate s court. overtly in terms of what their agenda is, they re proposing hr-1. it s a huge reform measure. i mean imagine if it became law, right? this isn t all of it, but it s like nationwide automatic voter registration. an end to partisan gerrymandering. independent commissions have to make nonpartisan congressional districts. two weeks of early voting in every state in the union. ex-felons get their voting rights reinstated. funding for states to use paper ballots for election integrity. georgia is a state where they don t have that. election day is a federal holiday. prohibitions on states using aggressive voter purges to throw people off the rolls. candidates for president and vice president and sitting presidents and vice presidents have to disclose ten years of their tax returns. dark money groups have to
hr-1. it s a huge reform measure. i mean imagine if it became law, right? this isn t all of it, but it s like nationwide automatic voter registration. an end to partisan gerrymandering. independent commissions have to make nonpartisan congressional districts. two weeks of early voting in every state in the union. ex-felons get their voting rights reinstated. funding for states to use paper ballots for election integrity. georgia is a state where they don t have that. election day is a federal holiday. prohibitions on states using aggressive voter purges to throw people off the rolls. candidates for president and vice president and sitting presidents and vice presidents have to disclose ten years of their tax returns. dark money groups have to disclose their donors. no more gigantic anonymous campaign contributions. how about a small donor matching seasonal so congressional candidates can get public financing instead of having to rely on pacs and giant donors. that would change everythi
us gave a little blood on the bridge. we don t want to give any more blood, but we have our votes, and we must use our votes as a powerful instrument to change things. with this bill we demonstrate that this house is for the people, and we will choose the side of fairness, equality and justice over special interests every time. that s the right thing to do, and we will do it. yes! amen. [ applause ] democrats gathering today to announce what amounts to their first substantive bill. their voting as of last night to keep the government open, that s now in the senate s court. overtly in terms of what their agenda is, they re proposing hr-1. it s a huge reform measure. i mean imagine if it became law, right? this isn t all of it, but it s
fbi s warrantless surveillance program. and in the course of doing that, suppressed and prevented the house from voting on a reform measure that had bipartisan support coming out of the house judiciary committee that would have imposed greater safeguards for americans privacy against abuses by government surveillance authorities. and so they clearly do not have that as a motivation of the political actions they re taking in real-time. charlie, thank you so much for being with us, we greatly appreciate it. as always. bob costa, let me ask you about the split. is there a split between house republicans and senate republicans? i know there s so many times when more conservative members of the house would go after bill clinton that republican senators, even conservative republican senator was say slow down, you re going to hurt yourself and you re going to hurt all of us in the process.
was in the 1990s. took three years to investigate that. the process is very slow. people see it now as kind of a dodge. you kick it over to the ethics committee. they investigate it for a long time. nothing really comes of it or the story is forgotten about. they ll have to get serious. they aren t going to be able to do that. i think we ll get really serious. this story seems to be far from over. but, kevin, on one regard maybe part of the reform measure should be to hold the ethics committee accountable if that s a way to do that by way of legislation. push the button on them to make sure they re doing their job. to the point about this needs to be a discussion that the leaders need to have. the discussion is happening. it s happening on a national level. gentlemen, happy thanksgiving. happy thanksgiving. holiday shopping season here. this time around americans expected to spend, yes, more