We submit for your consideration the following ten principles for reforming the rules of the House of Representatives

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Common Cause joined more than 70 other government reform, civil rights, labor, environmental, and advocacy organizations urging some of the largest corporate funders of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to cut ties with the organization after ALEC gave hatemonger David Horowitz a platform at their recent conference to spread white supremacist, sexist, and racist ideas.

The report reveals which members of the Louisiana legislature have ties to ALEC and which recent state bills can be traced back to the organization. Additionally, the report documents how ALEC abuses its public charity status with the IRS, effectively making its corporate donors eligible for tax breaks for its funding of ALEC.

How money in politics, felony disenfranchisement and prison gerrymandering fuel mass incarceration and undermine democracy.

We respectfully ask you to hold oversight hearings to investigate the Administration’s interactions with ZTE and the Chinese government to determine if there were any laws and/or regulations that were broken.