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For the People Act

For the People Act

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Nov 8, 2026

Eugene DanielsHOST
7:29
That's for viewers.
Eugene DanielsHOST
7:31
H.R. 1 is House Resolution 1, which would be the first bill that Democrats put on the floor.
Eugene DanielsHOST
7:35
Do you think that it has to it should deal with health care? That's one of the things that I'm hearing from a lot of folks is that that is a place that you guys could actually get it passed, that Republicans would probably sign on and it would be difficult for Donald Trump to say no to.
Madeleine DeanGUEST
7:51
Absolutely.
Madeleine DeanGUEST
8:33
Get rid of the clowns and the dealmakers who are doing deals more for themselves than for the American public.
Madeleine DeanGUEST
8:39
So you bet.
Madeleine DeanGUEST
8:41
whatever iteration, and I'm not going to be the one to reveal the total scaffolding of H.R. 1, but I know it is going to be around affordability, access, health care.
Eugene DanielsHOST
8:52
Everyone's getting real mum on what the rules are going to be.
John FugelsangHOST
49:55
But again, this was voting.
John FugelsangHOST
49:58
The HR1, you mean the For the People Act, right? I mean, this was for voting rights.
John FugelsangHOST
50:01
Absolutely.
John FugelsangHOST
50:02
And they were fighting for this before the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act last year.
Angela RyeHOST
63:44
Like the first item on the agenda.
Angela RyeHOST
63:46
So a question, Andrew, is what should the first item be on House Bill 1? House Bill 1 should be what?
Andrew GillumHOST
63:54
House Bill 1.
Andrew GillumHOST
63:55
So House Bill 1.
Andrew GillumHOST
63:57
H.R. 1.
James ClyburnSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
63:58
Excuse me.
Mark PocanGUEST
11:06
Yeah, I'll tell you, we've passed it when the House was in the majority for four years.
Mark PocanGUEST
11:10
Both sessions we passed a bill to end citizens united, H.R. 1.
Mark PocanGUEST
11:14
It was the most comprehensive campaign finance, ethics and elections reform law ever introduced.
Mark PocanGUEST
11:19
And we sent it to the Senate.
Mark PocanGUEST
13:15
and the
Thom HartmannHOST
13:16
John Lewis Voting
Mark PocanGUEST
13:16
Rights Act and things like that were also part of H.R. 1 in the past, right? It's going to go back to that same thing around the Senate.
Mark PocanGUEST
13:24
I mean, I'm just glad.
Dan MandisHOST
9:51
Act.
Dan MandisHOST
9:51
The For the People Act.
Dan MandisHOST
9:52
Thank you.
Sam RutherfordHOST
9:54
What? What?
Jay WeberHOST
7:12
Obama's team encouraged the flood of illegals across the border, as Nancy Pelosi put together a master plan to accomplish these other goals.
Jay WeberHOST
7:19
She called it H.R. 1, as in House Resolution 1, and Pelosi would introduce it as the first bill that any new Congress would try to pass when she was Speaker.
Jay WeberHOST
7:29
All sorts of terrible ways to cheat are included in that legislation, including having the federal government basically take over how our elections are run, snatch that control away from the states, then give D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood in order to add four more congressional seats from deep Democrat areas.
Jay WeberHOST
7:44
Another feature of H.R. 1 is to normalize and encourage lawless mail-in voting.
Jay WeberHOST
7:49
And since they need an accomplished Supreme Court that would allow all of these extra constitutional moves to actually stand, they knew they'd have to steal permanent control of the court as well.
Jay WeberHOST
7:58
And they've known this for decades.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
6:42
The Republicans swear by gerrymandering.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
6:46
The Democrats have tried in the Democracy for All Act, in the For the People Act, the Fair Redistricting Act.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
6:54
We've tried multiple times to mandate independent, nonpartisan redistricting commissions in every state in the union.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
7:01
Every Democrat has voted for it and every Republican opposes it.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
4:46
The Republicans swear by gerrymandering.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
4:50
The Democrats have tried in the Democracy for All Act, in the For the People Act, the Fair Redistricting Act.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
4:58
We've tried multiple times to mandate independent, nonpartisan redistricting commissions in every state in the union.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
5:06
Every Democrat has voted for it, and every Republican opposes it.
Kevin MorrisGUEST
55:30
But in 2022, we came very close to restoring the Voting Rights Act, passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
Kevin MorrisGUEST
55:37
an HR1, died on the filibuster when Kyrsten Sinema stood up and said that she was not willing to suspend the filibuster for democracy reform.
Toby BuckleHOST
55:47
One of the stupidest things a Democratic senator has ever said, and that's a high bar.
Kevin MorrisGUEST
55:52
Yeah, but if we, assuming that, or hoping or imagining that there's a pro-democracy majority in the Senate come, say, 2029, I don't know.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
1:28
Well, to step back for one second, Dean, and look, the Democrats in Congress have been trying to get rid of partisan gerrymandering for more than a decade.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
1:38
We have voted on the For the People Act.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
1:41
The number one plank was to mandate independent, nonpartisan redistricting commissions in every state and union.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
1:49
We pushed the For the People Act.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
1:51
Same thing.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
1:53
the Fair Representation Act.

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