Rachel Hurley

Government Reform Undoing Citizens United takes a constitutional amendment - two-thirds of Congress plus three-quarters of the states. The people who’d have to vote for it are mostly funded by the very system it would end. It won’t pass in my term, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something. Government Reform Push for 18-year limits on a justice’s term.5 I’ll be straight with you: that one likely needs a change to the Constitution, which means getting most of the country to agree. It’s the long fight, not the quick one. Government Reform I can’t outlaw lobbying - the Constitution protects the right to petition the government, and it should. But I can make every piece of it visible, and I can refuse to walk through that door myself. Government Reform Cosponsor the Freedom to Vote Act, which sets up independent commissions to draw fair maps. Government Reform Cosponsor the Restore Trust in Congress Act in the House. It bans members, spouses, and kids from trading individual stocks. It has bipartisan support - Tennessee’s own Tim Burchett, a Republican, is one of them. Government Reform Add seats to the Supreme Court. Nine isn’t in the Constitution. Congress picked that number and has changed it seven times.4 Adding seats just takes a law and a majority - no amendment. After a Court that gutted the Voting Rights Act and blessed this map, I’m for it. Yes, they’ll call it a power grab. A Court that broke the rules first doesn’t get to cry foul. Government Reform Cosponsor every term-limits bill that comes through.