CNN: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell faced backlash from Democrats for calling their House bill a "power grab" as it included a provision to make Election Day a federal holiday, among other changes.
The sweeping legislation HR 1, or what Democrats are calling the "For the People Act," would also require presidential candidates to release their tax returns, adds a matching system for small donations, requires super PACs to disclose their donors who give more than $10,000, and prohibits voter purging.
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