Enclosed for your information is an article entitled “Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century” by Jane Mayer which was published here in The New Yorker on March 29, 2021. According to the article: A recording obtained by The New Yorker of a private conference call on January […]
Enclosed for your information is a New York Times editorial entitled “For Democracy to Stay, the Filibuster Must Go,” which was published here on March 11, 2021. According to the editorial: The point of H.R. 1 is not to help Democrats. It is to rebuild and reinforce the crumbling foundations of American self-government and abolish […]
Enclosed for your information is an article entitled “In Statehouses, Stolen-Election Myth Fuels a G.O.P. Drive to Rewrite Rules,” which was published here by The New York Times on February 27, 2021. According to the article: Led by loyalists who embrace former President Donald J. Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen election, Republicans in state […]
Enclosed for your information is an article entitled “House set to move on elections overhaul as outside advocates focus on Senate,” which was published here in Roll Call on February 25, 2021. According to the article: “We have a broken political system, a corrupting campaign finance system and a democracy that has been greatly damaged,” […]
Enclosed for your information is an opinion piece by Jamelle Bouie titled “How to Not Be at the Mercy of a Trumpified G.O.P.” which was published in The New York Times on February 23, 2021. According to the piece: Obama asked Democrats to kill the filibuster and pass a voting rights bill because it was […]
Enclosed for your information is an article by Ronald Brownstein entitled, “The GOP Cheat Code to Winning Back the House,” which was published in The Atlantic on February 11, 2021. According to the article: Democrats face a daunting future of severe Republican gerrymandering that could flip control of the House in 2022 and suppress diverse […]
Enclosed for your information is an article by Ronald Brownstein entitled, “The Senate’s coming crisis over majority rule,” which was published here by CNN on February 9, 2021. According to the article: In this increasingly parliamentary political system centered on majority rule, the Senate now stands out even more conspicuously as the choke point that […]
Enclosed for your information is an article entitled, “Activists call on Democrats to pass major election reforms as states move to restrict voting,” which was published here on CNN on February 5, 2021. According to the article: Faced with a barrage of bills to clamp down on ballot access around the country, some voting rights […]
Enclosed for your information is an op-ed by E.J. Dionne Jr. entitled “Democrats are faced with a choice. Protect the filibuster or protect democracy,” which was published here in The Washington Post on January 31, 2021. According to the piece: The Democrats can use their House and Senate majorities to reform our politics, guarantee voting […]
Enclosed for your information is an article entitled “After Record Turnout, Republicans Are Trying to Make It Harder to Vote,” which was published here in The New York Times on January 30, 2021. According to the article: Now, in statehouses nationwide, Republicans who echoed former President Donald J. Trump’s baseless claims of rampant fraud are […]
