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Senate Dems just introduced the most important democracy reform bill since the 1965 Voting Rights Act, joining House Dems. I detailed the major components here, including sweeping voting access expansions, banning House gerrymandering, & public financing: https://dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/15/2009558/-Voting-Rights-Roundup-Georgia-Senate-wins-pave-way-for-Democrats-to-pass-historic-election-reforms https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1351552342152376320
Note that this bill doesn't include a restoration of the Voting Rights Act, which is planned as separate legislation, but this bill does include a reaffirmed commitment to restore the VRA. You can read the section-by-section Senate bill summary here: https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/SIMPLE-SECTION-BY-SECTION_S.-1%20Final.pdf https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1351557823516209155
Here's the full list of major provisions in the sweeping democracy-reform bill that House & now Senate Dems have introduced as the first bill of the new session. These would be the biggest expansion of voting access & fair elections since the 1965 VRA https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/15/2009558/-Voting-Rights-Roundup-Georgia-Senate-wins-pave-way-for-Democrats-to-pass-historic-election-reforms
Passing this bill won't be easy—Dems will have to curtail the filibuster & likely reform the ultra-partisan Supreme Court to maintain it, which goes for many different major policies Dems could pass under Biden—but winning the Senate makes it all possible https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1351569367704584192
In addition to the sweeping democracy reforms of the For the People Act, Senate & House Dems plan to push for two other key bills: The John Lewis Voting Rights Act & #DCstatehood. 45 of 50 Senate Dems sponsored statehood or publicly backed it in 2020. The other 5 have yet to say
