The bill is going nowhere beyond the House. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday he won’t even bring it to his chamber’s floor.......
I listened to the discussion of this bill today on Cspan with the terrific questioning of the witness by Congressman Jordan. I don't know the name of the witness but I believe he was with a Free Speech group.
This HR 1 if it ever became law would make criminals of everybody who speaks out against an elected official if I understood correctly this discussion.
this was even too much for the ACLU - please read more at the source.
I want to try to get the transcript of this hearing. But it was indeed a very very scary piece of legislation and it is top priority of the Dems in the House. Which means it will pass in the House. But we need to be calling our Congressmen to be SURE they know we are paying attention and they need to vote NO on this measure.
THANK GOD that Senator McConnell says it won't even be brought to the floor in the Senate. I know some here do not like Sen. McConnell. But on this issue he is our last line of defense except for a Presidential veto.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/HA/HA00/20190226/108972/BILLS-1161ih.pdf
Here is this heinous bill.
I am searching for Congressman Jordan’s questioning of the witness I heard today. I don’t know if this was a current hearing or the replay of an earlier hearing. Apparently this bill was referred to the House Administrative Committee but also to the House Judiciary committee. Congressman Jordan sits on the Judiciary comnmittee so that may be what I saw. Will investigate further.
This bill, from what I heard today in this hearing, should make everyone on FR and in this country who cares about the rule of law and the furtherance of our Free Republic, get involved in stopping it.
It’s so bad even the ACLU can’t stomach it.
There are currently a kazillion give or take a googolplex laws you must follow because of bills we’re not allowed or are too large to read until they are passed. They need to pass a law that says a bill cannot be more than 10 pages long with 10 point font.
I hope Yertle keeps his word. I wish we had a stronger majority leader, but I’m certainly willing to acknowledge the things McConnell has done right, above all supporting the Kavanagh confirmation. He may not be all we desire but he’s leagues ahead of the pathetic Ryno Ryan.
This bill is probably more end run around the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United. It is their signature issue. It is all about money in politics and their evil desire to eliminate to the maximum extent possible money and politics for everyone BUT themselves. This also extends down to State politics, watch for it.
Bills bills bills to limit what those in politics have been doing for eons, so let’s just limit what they have been doing by making it against the law. SCOTUS said basically when you limit money you limit free speech and for dems free speech is a problem. How can you win elections when your opponents have free speech and money and your platform stinks?
Watch for those endless end runs around a SCOTUS decision they really don’t like and so refuse to accept it. Kind of like the last Presidential election. In some ways they be like Republicans, only more organized and certainly more united.
Today’s Democrats, too far left for the ACLU. That’s really saying something.
And stop giving bills a nice fuzzy name when it is really a $hit sandwich that has nothing to do with the name.
What the.....I swear I just saw a flying pig go past my bedroom window.
McConnell is a traitor, stabbing Trump in the back on his border emergency—and that is just his most recent slight. I wouldn’t trust him on this either. If he sees personal advantage, he’ll back HR1, even if indirectly.
“This HR 1 if it ever became law would make criminals of everybody who speaks out against an elected official if I understood correctly this discussion”
Trump is an ‘elected official’, right?
Who thought that one up?
Do they not see how this would hamstring the MSM?
Nobody could speak against President Trump either.
But for the ACLU to oppose it, that’s going too far.
But hey, we’ve been praying for the evil among us to be exposed and it is. NOW something needs to change. I sure hope people are being horrified.
Instead of “taking money out of politics”, why not take politics out of money?
I’ll file for office and begin using the nick-name, “Vote”.
I’ll sell a million t-shirts to the ignorant masses.
thanks for posting this important item
They seem so desperate. I don’t know what’s in this bill. But I do understand a lot of the Blue States have already passed legislation in their state houses requiring their presidential electors to cast their electoral votes for whichever presidential candidate wins the “popular vote”. I’m no lawyer or constitutional scholar, but this doesn’t seem legal to me. It effectively takes the individual electors and has them override the voters in the state themselves.
Say Pennsylvania goes for Trump (which it did). If they had this “law”, then the electoral votes would have to go to the other candidate. It’s in effect saying “Voters of Pennsylvania are irrelevant. Because the more populous states of CA and NY went for the democrat, we have to give our votes to them, even though their candidate lost this state. I’m at a loss how they can even pass such legislation in a state and make that work legally or constitutionally.
our country will be completely hosed the next time the Dems take total power ...
A “stopped clock” moment for the ACLU. They are still the enemy of the Republic.
THANK GOD that Senator McConnell says it won’t even be brought to the floor in the Senate. I know some here do not like Sen. McConnell. But on this issue he is our last line of defense except for a Presidential veto.
Hardly. McConnell is no hero here. This bill would prevent K Street lobbyists from enriching GOP Senators so naturally he is opposing it.
“They will have the effect of harming our public discourse by silencing necessary voices that would otherwise speak out about the public issues of the day,”
That’s the whole point of the bill. The First Amendment only covers flag burning and taking a knee, and preventing anyone from putting up nativity scenes./s
Welcome to the reality in Canada. Ezra Levant made the mistake of criticizing a government official from the Canadian Human Rights tribunal and was sued successfully for defamation. The message is do NOT criticize government officials - at least not publicly. Sounds like the Democrats want the same thing for you guys.
How much "easier" does it have to be? Are RAT voter really the friggin' stupid? Chimpanzees have been submitting filled out democrat registration forms back to the DNC.