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Speaker 1: On this episode of News World, I want to walk

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Speaker 1: you through HR one, which the Democrats misleadingly called Quote

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Speaker 1: for the People Act, And I think it's important to

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Speaker 1: recognize a pattern you're going to see for the next

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Speaker 1: honest title, because if you actually understood what they were doing,

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Speaker 1: you'd automatically oppose it. Instead, they'll have a really nice

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Speaker 1: language that sounds morally appropriate that the liberal news media

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Speaker 1: will repeat adlessly. And you know, I have a For

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Speaker 1: the People Act? Are you for the People? That's what

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Speaker 1: comes from But I strongly suggest you google agreed at

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Speaker 1: some point George Orwell's extraordinary essay on politics and English Language,

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Speaker 1: in which he argues that the more dishonest the language,

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Speaker 1: the more dishonest the action it's hiding. And I think

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Speaker 1: it's exactly right. I would have called this bill the

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Speaker 1: Corrupt Politicians Dishonest Election Reinforcement Bill or something like that,

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Speaker 1: because this bill actually has its intellectual origin in Tammany

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Speaker 1: Hall machine New York, in the Chicago machine, in the

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Speaker 1: machine that's grown up in California. The whole pattern of

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Speaker 1: how do the politicians make sure that they win and

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Speaker 1: the public loses is captured and put into one bill,

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Speaker 1: which is called HR. One seven hundred and ninety one pages.

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Speaker 1: When it came to vote in the House, no Republican

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Speaker 1: against it, Benny Thompson in Mississippi, and in an interview

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Speaker 1: went back home and I talked to my local registrars

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Speaker 1: this was a terrible, terrible bill. So I want to

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Speaker 1: start from that standpoint, and as I go through it,

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Speaker 1: I think you'll see for yourself why it's a terrible bill,

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Speaker 1: and I think you'll want to call your two senators

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Speaker 1: and demand that they helped stop this bill from ever

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Speaker 1: becoming law. So let's begin with the very structure of

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Speaker 1: this bill, and it has a series of articles that

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Speaker 1: are consistently different from public opinion. The bill recommends statehood

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Speaker 1: for the District of Columbia. It declares Congress's perspective the

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Speaker 1: District of Columbia residents deserve full congressional voting rights and

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Speaker 1: self government, which only statehood can provide. Now, that violates

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Speaker 1: the whole constitutional reason. We have a District of Columbia,

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Speaker 1: They came to the conclusion that there was a great

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Speaker 1: And you can imagine if you have two Senators and

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Speaker 1: a Congressman from the District Plumbia, they would spend all day,

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Speaker 1: it's something which is not popular. A majority of Americans

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Speaker 1: it tells you a little bit how far out of

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Speaker 1: touch with the public this bill is. That this is

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Speaker 1: one of the provisions now at a time when we've

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Speaker 1: been worried about honest elections. We've been worried about making

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Speaker 1: sure that Americans legally can vote, but that their votes

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Speaker 1: if you know that really shouldn't be voting, but you

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Speaker 1: It says that the chief state election officers have to

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Speaker 1: big applications of this. One is what if people die.

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Speaker 1: When I was in Congress at one point we were

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Speaker 1: We are now saying that they have to keep track

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Speaker 1: It says that the state cannot refuse to accept or

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Speaker 1: They can't use my age as a way of stopping

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Speaker 1: It sets up taxpayer fund the campaigns. It repeals the

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Speaker 1: But if you do that, at that point, you start

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Speaker 1: This is a very important bill. Stopping it is very important,

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