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the hearing onme hr one, a bill that make changes to campaign finance, voting rights, and congressional ethics rules. why is hr one top priority for house democrats i think when house democrats ran in 2018, they saw that campaigning on a message of cleaning up corruption in washington was a very politically popular message, especially in some of the swing districts that democrats were able to flip from red to blue. inve seen in past elections 2016, bernie sanders and donald about anying correction washington was the political message. democrats understand that but they knew they had to get serious about trying to make a very bold effort to lay out a

plan specifying how they are going to do this. i think that is why you are seeing hr one is so comprehensive and so broad. >> to build us cover a lot of territory. what are some of the key things we should know about the underlying bill? planks.ill covers three the covers money in politics, ethics, things like cracking down on lobbying in d.c., and it expands voting rights. that would include up provision for automatic voter registration, it would include things to make it easier for people to vote, basically. >> the rules committee is where all the amendments, both democratic and republican amendments, or proposed. tell us what you saw come through and what will you be looking for in house floor debate over the next couple of days? >> i think the biggest change in terms of amendments that we are looking at, the bill has always

had a pretty strong vision for -- to create public campaign financing. the biggest change where going the proposaler would be funded through taxpayer dollars. over the process of committee hearings and market, there's a new change that have democrats are looking at creating basically what would be this new fee on corporate malfeasance or tax crimes. , the bigke wells fargo banking scandal in wells fargo, somebody like bernie made off, a ponzi scheme that ripped off a number of investors. when there is a big case like that, custom credits are looking at basically applying a fee to whatever settlement comes out of these big court cases, and then putting the money that comes

from those fees into a fund that would then find public campaign-finance reform. that i would say is the biggest change that is coming out of the amendments process. >> we have seen republicans in the house be successful a couple of times now in amending bills through the motion to recommit. gunmost recent, last week's legislation. is there any indication the gop will try that this time around, and if so, what are their priorities in this hr one? >> i think there's a possibility that could happen. if the gop will be as successful this time around, just because hr1 is popular among moderate and the left wing of the democratic party. a number of these candidates, some of which the gop was kind of successful in peeling off last week with the background check bill. a number of these candidates

have run on corporate packs in 2018. they are big open supporters of hr1. i think the gop will certain try to do some -- commit to the same thing. i don't know if they will be out to split democrats quite as easily this time around. tweet earlierur about the administration view, their statement of administration policy, knows the prize the president would not vetoed thegislation, legislation. but it's not even likely to make it that far. tell us the story about what the senate will or won't likely do. shocked if the bill in even made it to the floor of the senate. senate majority leader mitch ,cconnell has already staunchly vehemently, repeatedly made his

opposition to hr1 known. he's written and all back in the washington post. basically characterizing this bill as an attempt, democrats attempting to shift the party or the country into one-party rule. that's why the ways he has characterized it. he has a number of issues with the bill, including checking to public campaign-finance reform, objecting to some of the restructuring that would happen at the federal elections commission. there are number of things he doesn't like. he's concerned about disclosing donors and saying that impinge is on free speech. so even know the trump administration said it would be feasible today, i don't think is going to make it at far -- as far as trump's desk. >> you can read her reporting on twitter. thanks so much for joining us.

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