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WASHINGTON — House Democrats are poised to pass a sweeping elections and ethics bill, offering it up as a powerful counterweight to voting rights restrictions
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WASHINGTON — House Democrats are poised to pass a sweeping elections and ethics bill, offering it up as a powerful counterweight to voting rights restrictions
>> i know axios is reporting on a house vote expected this week to tighten anti-description laws. >> this is hr-1. this is speaker pelosi's signature, as she begins cole of the hou -- control of the house. this is an ethics bill that will take in voting rights and has the most notable headline provision. it will require presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns. gee, wonder who that is aimed at. >> we'll see if it passes and actually applies to 2020. >> a little late. >> 500 pages in hr-1. >> thank you very much for that. axios am is not 500 pages. >> 499. you can sign up by going ...
To impose. what is the trump family fumt. in order to maintain confidence in our tax system, we need to know about that, and of course along the way in the many business entities that he has, we need to know about saudi and russian and other foreign influence that may be endangering our security, inc. it is. what will happen this week is not perhaps the formal letter, but it is a hearing that regards an ethics bill that we're trying to get through congress to ensure not just this president but all future presidential candidates disclose their personal and their business returns so the american...
Just outhustled him, and the district, this part of where i was elected, they had never had a republican elected, had a pretty good republican potential for national election particularly, and so, anyway, i ran, went door to door. i got people mobilized, local people, and it was big. it was good. and off i went to the u.s. congress. i was very fortunate that i was put on the ways and means committee. it was a wonderful thing because then your pieers, hey, he's on the ways and means committee, it was a big deal in those days. then i'd work for a bunch of other congressmen trying to fight for an...
Happy living in nebraska and going to d.c. five times a week to do the best job i can. >> the odds that i'm going to run for 2020 is zero present, so i can say that. that's not what you just said. >> right now, we talk way too much time talking about running than we talk about governing. so in the next week and a half i'm going to be introducing a piece of legislation for ethics reform. >> i know that ethics bill is important to you and i know you want to do it in the memory of john mccain. thanks for being with us senator. he was the first trump campaign aid sentenced to prison for lying to...