Repairing our democracy

On Friday, Congress took a major step by passing an election reform bill to repair our democracy.

This sweeping democracy reform bill will clean up corruption in Washington and return power to the people. The bill covers a lot, but three areas stand out to me:

Strengthen access to democracy:

expand automatic voter registration
end partisan gerrymandering
require paper ballots
crackdown on voter suppression

Impose high ethical standards:

hold members of Congress and the President to higher standards of ethics
require presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns
end the 'revolving door' of high-level government employees lobbying their agencies within two years of leaving

Address big money in elections: