Legislative Background on H.R.1
Recent Action by Congress on Government Reform
Voting rights, campaign reform, and ethics reform are all perennial issues in the United States legislature. All focus on combatting corruption in government. H. R. 1, the For the People Act, combines these issues in a sweeping bill, with the name calling attention to the Democrats’ goals. Earlier bills treated the same topics, but often in a more individual way, such as in the 1965 passage of the Voting Rights Act. A Congressional Research Report says that “H.R. 1 is one of the broadest legislative proposals addressing campaign finance, elections, ethics, and lobbying introduced in recent decades.” Campaign finance provisions…
