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HR 4 ‘Gives Federal Bureaucrats Control’ Over State Election Laws, Expert Says

HR 4 ‘Gives Federal Bureaucrats Control’ Over State Election Laws, Expert Says

FromThe Daily Signal Podcast


HR 4 ‘Gives Federal Bureaucrats Control’ Over State Election Laws, Expert Says

FromThe Daily Signal Podcast

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22 minutes
Released:
Aug 24, 2021
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The House Rules Committee voted Monday on rules governing debate on election legislation known as HR 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The controversial bill now goes to the House for a vote. After Democrats failed to pass HR 1, a partisan piece of election law, they crafted HR 4, which Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky says is a danger to states' election rights. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)HR 4 “gives federal bureaucrats control over all these state [election] rules all over the country,” says von Spakovsky, a former member of the Federal Election Commission. “It is an unbelievable invasion of state sovereignty.” The bill is likely to pass along party lines in the House, but faces a battle in the evenly divided Senate, he says. Von Spakovsky joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why the left is advocating for federal control of elections, and how HR 4 would affect the nation if it were to become law. We also cover these stories:The Food and Drug Administration formally approves the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.The Pentagon plans to mandate that all U.S. military personnel be vaccinated.Monday was Andrew Cuomo's last day serving as governor of New York.Enjoy the show! Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
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