Uncheck the Box Act

Protecting Our Democracy Act (S 2838) - protects our democracy by preventing abuses of Presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference; Uncheck the Box Act (HR 4511) - prohibits a person from soliciting a recurring contribution to a political committee, independent expenditure, or any electioneering communications that does not require the contributor to provide affirmative consent; Resolution Reaffirming the principles of the US Constitution, including separation of powers and the rule of law, and condemning efforts to undermine the same (HRes 603); Honest Elections and Campaign, No Gain Act (HR 4786) - establishes certain requirements for disbursing unused funds after a federal election; SWIFT Vote Act (HR 4881) - speeds up the voting process by supporting the widespread use of e-poll books; Sustaining Our Democracy Act (HR 4910) - provides grant funding for states and local jurisdictions to improve and innovate their election administration procedures; Voter on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections (VOTE) Act (HR 4914) -provides protections and minimum standards for accessibility to voting for unhoused people; Election Mail Act (HR 4915) - improves the delivery and processing of election mail by setting minimum standards and improving USPS processes; ); People Over Long Lines (POLL) Act (HR 4911) - sets minimum standards for how long people may wait in line to vote and provides resources to reduce voter wait times; Youth Voting Rights Act (HR 4916) - enforces the bipartisan-passed 26th Amendment and ensures eligible your voters can access the ballot box; Time off to Vote Act (HR 4908) - mandates that all workers receive protected time off in order to vote; Help America Run Act (HR 4912) - codifies FEC regulations that permit campaign funds to be used for child, elder, and dependent care, or health coverage; Expanding the VOTE Act (HR 4917) - gives jurisdictions the resources to provide more translations of election materials and ensures everyone, regardless of their level of English language proficiency, can equitably participate in our democracy; Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S. 51) - grants statehood to the District of Columbia; SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act (S. 1491) - amends title 18, United States Code, to modify the definition of special Government employees; Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections (ZOMBIE) Act (S. 1849) - amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require each authorized committee or leadership PAC of a former candidate for election for Federal office to disburse all the remaining funds of the committee or PAC after the election; Close the Revolving Door Act (S. 1850) - provides greater controls and restrictions on revolving door lobbying; Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act (S 2300) - restricts contributions to presidential libraries, explicitly banning conversion of Presidential Library donations to ones personal ownership and establishing robust disclosure requirements; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 14/S 2523) - amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act; Voters on the Move Registration Act (HR 4909) - provides voters with information on how to register to vote and their voting rights under law as they move residences; National Voting Rights Month (HRes 756); Restore Trust in Congress Act (HR 5106) - prohibits Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks; Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (S 1498) - would ban Members of Congress, the president and vice president from buying and selling stocks, securities, commodities, or futures; Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S 1213) -prohibits the distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media that is generated by AI relating to federal candidates; Climate Resilient Elections Act (HR 5407) - requires states and localities to prepare and publish with the EAC natural disaster preparedness plans for election days; Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress (TRUST) Act (HR 396) - requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust; SAVE Act (HR 22) - requires to provide proof of US citizenship in person when registering to vote in federal elections and states would have to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls; Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act (HR 253) - prohibits Members of Congress (and their spouses and dependents) from purchasing or selling certain investments; Stop Illegal Campaign Coordination Act (HR 2476) - amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat certain expenditures as coordinated; No Censors On Our Shores Act (HR 1071) - certifies that non-U.S. nationals involved in conduct in violation in the U.S. of the 1st Amendment are inadmissible for entry into the U.S. and deportable. Ranked Choice Voting Act (TBD) - requires ranked choice voting in all congressional primary and general elections starting in 2028; Restoring Trust In Public Servants (TBD) - prohibits public servants across all three branches of government from owning or trading "covered investments" and requires divestment of those assets within 90 days at the risk of paying a penalty of a month's salary for each month out of compliance; DISCLOSE Act (TBD) - addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements; Freedom to Vote (TBD) - bill addresses voter registration and voting access, election integrity and security, redistricting, and campaign finance. Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act (TBD); Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now (CLEAN) Act (TBD); Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act (TBD) - address conflicts of interest and criminal anti-corruption laws, enact lobbying and regulatory reform, demands transparency in government records; Inclusive Democracy Act (TBD); Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act (TBD) - requires members to certify compliance with provisions of the bill; American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act (lobbied against) (TBD); Political Accountability and Transparency Act (TBD); Funding Research into Efficient and Effective (FREE) Elections Act (TBD) - creates a grant program to find research into election administration innovations; Registration Challenges Prevention Bill (TBD), Registration Challenges Prevention Act (TBD) - puts safeguards, guidelines, and standards around how challenges to voter registrations and registration challenge portals can be handled. Bills opposing DC Home Rule, protecting the FECs independence from presidential overreach, dealing with the FECs current lack of a quorum and nominations, redacting donor data from FEC disclosure; addressing efforts to advance a constitutional amendment related to campaign finance; opposing President Trumps anti-democracy executive orders, opposing to documentary proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, addressing federal safeguards for state voter mass challenges laws, addressing executive branch conflicts of interest and former lobbyists serving in the executive branch, updating the STOCK Act to ban congressional stock trading, addressing Supreme Court ethics reform, focused on PAC funds/IRS nomination, addressing voter list maintenance. addressing the personal use loophole with leadership PACs, requiring the disclosure of campaign payments to social media influencers, addressing general campaign finance legislative issues, addressing new ICE rules for congressional visits to detention centers, addressing potential exceptions to campaign finance disclosure rules, providing funding for election administration in FY 26 appropriations process, addressing potential corruption through donations to presidential libraries, regulating political fundraising conduit platforms, , and overseeing the need to protect judicial independence and judges ability to hold government officials accountable for violating the law or court orders.