End Citizens United (ECU) // Let America Vote (LAV) Action Fund President Tiffany Muller released the following statement:
“Winning Democratic control of the House, Senate and White House is a huge victory against Republican corruption and for the vitality of our democracy. Americans across the country are fed up with the rigged system in Washington that has stalled progress on critical issues impacting their daily lives and took their frustration to the polls.
“Democrats won majorities in the House and Senate making reform a central plank to their campaigns, and now Congress must respond by passing the biggest anti-corruption, voting rights, and ethics reform legislation in a generation, the For the People Act. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. John Sarbanes and House Democrats have already re-introduced the For the People Act as H.R. 1. The House should pass it quickly and the Senate should follow suit so President Joe Biden can sign this transformative bill into law. The American people are demanding change in Washington and a stronger democracy that serves the people, not the special interests. Congress can make that a reality.”
In 2018, Democrats won control of the House by making reform a major issue in their campaigns, with 27 out of the 40 seats flipped including candidates who rejected corporate PAC money. In 2020, the Senate did the same and flipped five seats with candidates rejecting corporate PAC money. Both President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris rejected corporate PAC money during the primary and general election campaigns and President-elect Joe Biden has committed to making the For the People Act “a first priority.”
Leading up to the re-introduction of the bill, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and ECU // LAV Action Fund President Tiffany Muller wrote an op-ed calling on Congress to pass the For the People Act into law to safeguard our elections and strengthen our democracy. In the 116th Congress, House Democrats passed the bill with unanimous Democratic support but Senate Majority Mitch McConnell refused to bring it up for a vote in the Senate.
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