If HR 1 passed, in whole or chunk by chunk... wow

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But I thought both parties were the same?

The criticism is similar to what Truman said about the Do-Nothing Congress back in 1948. Essentially, the criticism is "Why didn't they do this back in 2009 when they controlled everything?"

[GoTfan]

Next time Dems have the trifecta, they'd better ram this through.

Highly unlikely. Look at how the Democrats caved in New Jersey when they were eager to pass progressive legislation under Christie, but began to change their tune when a Democrat became Governor.

They didn't even pass all the election reforms that had been bottled up under Christie. They literally had all of it ready to go in a single bill, just like HR 1, and then when Murphy took office, they passed AVR and moved on.

If Democrats were swept into power in 2020 with super-majorities, you'd probably see this bill introduced mid-late 2021 with half of what it has now, and fights ensuing over basically anything that hurts corporate influence or wealthy donors, and probably a handful of Reps complaining that gerrymandering reform will hurt their ability to win (although far less of a problem since Democrats couldn't gerrymander nearly as many seats as Republicans in 2010).

It's a show bill. They know exactly what the people want, but it's rarely exactly what they would actually pass, if able.

Thank you.