By the People Resolution

H. Res. 975 · 115th Congress · Jun 28, 2018 · Lineage

RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Americans have a right to fair representation and that America’s democratic institutions are in urgent need of repair to provide greater responsiveness and accountability to the people through critical reforms that empower the American voter, strengthen our Nation’s ethics laws, and fix our broken campaign finance system.

Section 1 Short title

This resolution may be cited as the “By the People Resolution”.

Sec. 2 Purpose

It is the purpose of this resolution to express the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should advance a comprehensive set of political reforms to restore trust in, and integrity to, our institutions of democracy. Such reforms will—

(1)

empower the American voter;

(2)

strengthen our Nation’s ethics laws; and

(3)

fix our broken campaign finance system.

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Jun 28, 2018viewing Introduced in House Mr. Sarbanes (for himself, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Aguilar, Ms. Barragán, Mr. Bera, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Brown of Maryland, Mrs. Bustos, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Capuano, Mr. Cartwright, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Castro of Texas, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Crist, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Cummings, Mrs. Davis of California, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Delaney, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. DelBene, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Deutch, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Doggett, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. Esty of Connecticut, Ms. Frankel of Florida, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Gutiérrez, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Heck, Mr. Higgins of New York, Ms. Norton, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Jeffries, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Ms. Kaptur, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Clay, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Lawson of Florida, Ms. Lee, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Mr. Loebsack, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Ms. Matsui, Ms. McCollum, Mr. McEachin, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire, Mr. McNerney, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Nadler, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Nolan, Mr. Norcross, Mr. O'Halleran, Mr. O'Rourke, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. Perlmutter, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Polis, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Raskin, Miss Rice of New York, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Ruppersberger, Ms. Sánchez, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Serrano, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Sires, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Soto, Ms. Speier, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. Takano, Ms. Titus, Mr. Tonko, Ms. Tsongas, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Velázquez, Mr. Walz, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Maxine Waters of California, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Welch, Mr. Yarmuth, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Brownley of California, Mr. Veasey, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Payne, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Vela, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Murphy of Florida, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Engel, Ms. Bass, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Costa, Mr. Peters, Ms. Meng, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Rush, Mr. Kihuen, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Ruiz, Ms. Moore, Mr. Carbajal, and Mr. Foster) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

By the People Resolution

Section 1 Short title

Sec. 2 Purpose

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