Sign in: Twitter · Facebook · email · COMMITTEES
  • Ballot Access
  • About
    • About
    • We Stand For
    • Ten Key Values
    • COVID19
    • Welcome
    • The Real Difference
    • State Parties
    • Steering
    • Caucuses
    • History
    • Fix Our Broken System
    • National Meetings
    • Staff
    • Privacy
    • Strategic Plan
  • Store
  • Elections
    • Elections
    • 2022 Candidates
    • Run for Office
    • Why Register Green
    • Officeholders
    • Elections Database
    • Past Presidential Candidates
  • Platform
  • Newsroom
    • Newsroom
    • Press Releases
    • Press Inquiry
    • State & Local News
    • Green Pages
    • In The News
    • Messaging
    • Photos & Videos
  • Take Action
    • Take Action
    • Contact
    • Downloads
    • Organizing Tools
    • Petitions
    • Register Green
    • Volunteer
    • Ecoaction Committee
    • Peace Action Committee
  • Calendar
  • Search
  • Site Map
  • DONATE

Pages tagged "HR1"


HR 1 doesn't go far enough

  • It still wouldn't make it easy being Green

Last week the House voted 220-210 to pass HR 1, the Democratic majority's sweeping electoral reform bill intended to strengthen voting rights, enhance campaign finance reform, and address government ethics and corruption in politics. But the legislation also contains a poison pill designed to reduce political competition and voter choice, entrenching the polarizing duopoly electoral system that made Donald Trump's presidency possible.

Read more

Amend H.R. 1 to protect voting rights, not big donors

The “For the People Act” (H.R.1/S.1) is voting rights legislation now pending in Congress. Civil rights organizations are urgently supporting this bill in order to secure voting rights against over 250 voter suppression bills introduced by Republicans this year in 43 state legislatures.

As a GOP lawyer bluntly told the U.S. Supreme Court on March 2 in an Arizona voting rights case when asked why the Republican Party opposed removing a voting restriction, “Because it puts us at a competitive disadvantage relative to Democrats.” The voting rights sections of H.R.1 are important federal measures to enact at a time when the Republican Party seeks to restrict voting rights at the state level.

Read more

Calls To Action from the Green Party of Santa Clara County

  • In a recent Gallup poll, a record 62% of US voters said we need a new major party.

Stop HR-1, the Voting Rights Bill That Restricts Voter Choice

HR-1 is sold as a way to get money out of politics and to protect voters, but it contains a poison pill for democracy and opposition parties like the Green Party in its campaign finance reform section. HR1 quintuples the amount of money Green presidential campaigns will be required to raise to qualify for federal matching funds: from $5,000 in each of 20 states to $25,000 per state.

Read more

Green Party calls out HR 1 poison pills

The federal HR 1 - For the People Act - is designed to protect and expand voting rights against Republican efforts to curtail at the state level. But the Green Party says that the public campaign finance proposals, rather than reigning in special interest money, will block third parties from participating. Michael O'Neil, Communications Manager for the Green Party of the US discuss this with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.

Read more

Green Party of Virginia condemns poison pill provisions of H.R. 1

RICHMOND, VA – The Green Party of Virginia condemns multiple provisions of the recently introduced H.R.1, otherwise known as the For the People Act, which undermines third parties. The bill, while purporting to expand democracy, includes changes to rules governing the public financing of campaigns that are aimed squarely at limiting the participation of third parties.

Such provisions include section 5202(1)(a) which quintuples the amount of money that campaigns need to raise in order to qualify for federal matching funds. These funds are an incredibly important source of income for third parties, especially the Green Party which takes no corporate money. Raising the threshold for acquiring these funds does nothing to promote democracy, and by limiting the participation of third parties, does much to harm it.

Read more

HR1’s “Poison Pill” to Crush Alternative Parties Requires Amending — or the Bill Must Fail

Little-Known Provision in HR1 Will Quintuple the Amount of Money Presidential Candidates Must Raise to Participate in Public Matching Funds Program

WASHINGTON — The Green Party has gone on the record with the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Rules with a request that HR1 be amended to strike a provision that would quintuple the amount of money presidential campaigns will be required to raise to qualify for federal matching funds. HR1 will raise the qualifying threshold for presidential campaign matching funds from $5,000 raised in each of 20 states to $25,000 per state in 20 states.

Read more

Help us stop the "Voting Rights" bill that restricts voter choice!

Have you heard about HR 1, the poison pill sponsored by Congressman John Sarbanes disguised as a bill to get money out of politics? As electoral reform including getting big money out of politics has become more popular among voters, the Democrats are using it as a smokescreen to push for changes that will continue to restrict voter choice and silence opposition parties like the Green Party.

Read more

PA Greens call H.R. 1, "Onerous and Deceptive"

"The Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA) opposes any provisions in U.S. House Resolution 1 (H.R.1) that would work to vilify or weaken progressive voices, and we are against the proposed changes for the federal matching funds program," stated Jocolyn Bowser-Bostick, chair of the Delaware County Green Party and member of the GPPA Steering Committee.

Read more

HR 1 Cuts Green Party Campaign Funding, Sics Homeland Security and Political Police on the Left

HR 1 is the premiere legislative initiative of Democrats in the 116th Congress. It contains 571 pages of proposals and findings and such, but only two of HR 1’s dozens of provisions have a reasonable chance of passing the House and obtaining the bipartisan support in the Senate needed to become law.

Read more

House Democrats’ HR 1 – Faking the Funk on Voting Rights, Spreading Fear and Gunning For the Greens in 2020

It’s a new year, and Democrats running the House of Representatives under Nancy Pelosi, Jim Clyburn and Steny Hoyer need to rebrand themselves and prepare for the 2020 elections. So they’ve rolled out what they and their corporate media hacks are calling their flagship bill, HR 1, a 571 page monstrosity with dozens of empty promises they wouldn’t keep even if they could, along with a couple of serious threats against left dissenters in general and the Green Party in partucular that they just might. It’s not on the official House web site yet, but we read the version on the web site of its sponsor, congressman John Sarbanes of Maryland.

Read more

  • ← Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • Next →

Powered by people like you

Bruce Kappele De'Shauna Hughes Sunny Sun-Downer Political Homemaker G Watts FridayJones Kublai Duhart, Lcpc IAmJLR Ron Bon johnso: pear enjoyer💫 😈🏳️‍🌈🌹🛡️✿ Reagan Morgan


This site maintained by Union Labor

The Green Party of the United States

PO Box 75075, Washington, DC 20013
[email protected]
202.319.7191

CALENDAR
CONTACT
NEWSROOM
SITE MAP
STORE

Sign in with Facebook, Twitter or email.

Created with NationBuilder

Follow @GreenPartyUS on Twitter