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Newsweek: Mitch McConnell’s ‘Legislative Graveyard’ Helping Current Congress to Be the Least Productive in History, Report Says

"The House of Representatives passed nearly 10 democracy reform bills, often with bipartisan support, this session, but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked debate and markups on all of these bills and refused to allow a vote," Common Cause's director of legislative affairs, Aaron Scherb, said.

The 2020 Democracy Scorecard, one of the group's initiatives, provides data on every current member of the House of Representatives and Senate, including their votes and co-sponsorships of democracy reform bills.

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New York Times: Trump can’t postpone the election. But the courts will help shape how Americans vote this fall.

Decisions over how the general election will be conducted need to be sorted out now, said Sylvia Albert, the director of Voting and Elections at Common Cause, a voting rights group.

“The key is not waiting for November,” Ms. Albert said. “The point of those lawsuits is to establish the policies and procedures that are going to be used in November so there isn’t going to be confusion on the day of the election.”

ديلي بيست: كيف ساهم مشروع قانون سوزان كولينز للشركات الصغيرة في إنقاذ الشركات الكبرى

أشارت بيث روتمان، الخبيرة في المال والسياسة من منظمة "السبب المشترك"، إلى أن المسودة الأولية لقانون حماية الرواتب لم تتضمن استثناءً للسلاسل، وصرحت لصحيفة "ديلي بيست": "في جوهره، أدى تضافر مصالح خاصة ثرية مع مساهمين ذوي نفوذ في لحظة حرجة إلى تعديل حزمة التحفيز الاقتصادي التي عرّفت الشركات الصغيرة بأنها تشمل الشركات الكبيرة لأنها تمتلك امتيازات كبيرة تتألف من مئات الكيانات الأصغر. لقد كانوا ملتزمين بالقانون الذي ساهموا في صياغته". 

ABC News: ‘More time would have been helpful’: Ohio election officials face ballot issues due to postal service delays

Catherine Turcer, the executive director of Common Cause Ohio, said that for vote-by-mail to be successful in Ohio, should that be the default in November, the process needs to be streamlined. That means eliminating the additional back-and-forth of submitting an absentee ballot application.

Houston Chronicle: Who is in charge of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s plan to help to restart the Texas economy? A secret team of entrepreneurs led by a Dallas megadonor

Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of Common Cause Texas, a nonpartisan watchdog organization, said “with this much money flowing around the last thing you want is for it to all go to people who just happen to be politically well connected as opposed to people who are out of a job without health care or have their business shutting down.”

Houston Chronicle: Federal stimulus could send $20M to Texas for elections help

“Every Texan needs should be able to safely register to vote and cast their ballot whether by mail or in person,” Anthony Gutierrez, Executive Director of Common Cause Texas, said in a statement. “The way we make that happen is to use these funds to implement online voter registration, expand vote by mail, extend early voting, recruit more election workers, and ensure all poll sites meets public health safety standards.”

ABC News: How Bloomberg could help Joe Biden take on Trump

“Bloomberg can keep his offices open and his staff employed--all to support Biden--with Bloomberg continuing to pay for it, but the work needs to be done independently of the Biden campaign,” Paul S. Ryan of nonpartisan watchdog group Common Cause told ABC News. “In other words, Bloomberg can run a pro-Biden super PAC, using his campaign office space and campaign staff. Bloomberg's pro-Biden effort staff couldn't coordinate it's spending with the Biden campaign.”

“What Bloomberg can not do is simply merge his team and...

Los Angeles Times: Wildfire liability, net neutrality bills help spur record spending on California lobbying in 2018

“Money has too much influence on our political system,” said Rey Lopez-Calderon, the executive director of California Common Cause. “Every year we see the lobbying spending increase is a year we risk disenfranchising more voters and silencing the voices of ordinary citizens.”

MSNBC (VIDEO): Why it might not help Trump to compare himself to John Edwards

President Trump has been comparing the hush money payments made during his campaign to those made by John Edwards. Kristen Welker is joined by Vice President for Policy and Litigation at Common Cause, Paul Ryan, to discuss how the president’s situation compares to Edwards’ case and why that might not help him at all. Duration: 7:50

WNYC (AUDIO): Low Turnout a Problem for Menendez, But Trump Should Help

Stephen Spaulding, of the government watchdog group Common Cause, said “sometimes the appearance of corruption can be just as damaging to trust, faith and confidence in government as actual corruption.” It’s not just Menendez, Spaulding said wealthy donors buying influence is all too common in Washington, and the line between favors and bribery is murky. “And the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Roberts has by no means been a beacon of clarity on that front,” Spaulding said. “The court has by and large said this kind of access and...

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