“This legislation, which the House passed in 2019, is the centerpiece of Democrats’ agenda to make government more transparent and accountable to the people it serves,” Hoyer wrote.
Sponsored by Maryland Representative John Sarbanes along with all but four members of the House Democratic Caucus, the For the People Act was House Democrats’ signature piece of legislation during the 116th Congress.
The lack of attention to pro-democracy reforms, experts say, could prove a costly mistake come 2022.
That could mean Republicans locking Democrats out of any meaningful chance of controlling Congress for the next decade.
According to Common Cause Senior Counsel Stephen Spaulding, the implications of not getting H.R. 1 passed could be extremely serious.
But he added that establishing uniform standards for voting across all 50 states would not have a partisan tilt one way or another.
Until Trump started attacking the validity of postal ballots, Republicans had made use of them in greater numbers than Democrats in many key states. »