Anyone have a good article explaining HR1 (the voting rights bill)?

[LymphocyteLover]

I saw this one posted on FB but I have some issues with it. It also doesn't seem very comprehensive. I'm interested in pluses and minuses that could be used to sell it versus criticize it.

The only thing I found useful here was that it explained that The John Lewis Voting Rights Act is a different bill-- HR4, when I thought HR1 was The John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

https://elections-daily.com/2021/03/25/h-r-1-the-good-the-bad-and-the-wtf/

[Hortensis]

1. :) Here's the SEARCHABLE bill itself with clickable table of contents:

H. R. 1: AN ACT

To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and implement other anti-corruption measures for the purpose of fortifying our democracy, and for other purposes.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/text

Vox has an explanatory article about it. https://www.vox.com/2021/3/3/22309123/house-democrats-pass-voting-rights-bill-hr1 Skip below the discussion about getting it passed to the summary of what's in it. It's huge, though, and any summaries will miss a lot of items.

[LymphocyteLover]

2. Thanks!

[LymphocyteLover]

3. I wonder the likeliehood of amending it is to help it pass?

[Hortensis]

4. My guess is good. After all, bills are supposed to result from

cooperation and eventual agreement. And the house bill, which this is, goes over to the senate to be reconciled with the version the senate has agreed on, etc. The sausage making process where we're supposed to end up with agreement that'll work for most even if some are disappointed by what they didn't get.

For us, the disappointment we'll accept in this case is mostly already built in -- by us. This bill is enormously ambitious and would have been even more so if we thought we could get a lot more passed at this time. But Schumer, Pelosi, Biden et al intend to make enormous historic change happen.

[LymphocyteLover]

5. Yes I hope so. I heard that Dem leaders were reluctant to revise the bill to please Manchin

[Hortensis]

6. Umhm. And anything they/we hear is message to others.

Whatever it means.