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handle is hein.crs/govefdu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional SResearch Service Elections Policy Overview and the 117th Congress January 21, 2022 The second session of the 117th Congress has continued considering legislation on issues related to campaign finance, elections, and voting. As Congress examines whether or how to address such proposals, a threshold question may be which policy areas the House and Senate want to affect, if any. This CRS Insight provides a brief overview of the campaign finance, election administration, and voting rights policy issues that pending or future legislation could address. It also provides links to selected CRS products that contain additional detail about various policy issues. It does not address constitutional or legal issues, but links to CRS products that do so. Recent Legislative Activity The first session of the 117* Congress did not enact major changes to federal election law. In the first session, the House passed three bills related to campaign finance, elections, or voting rights: H.R. 1, the For the People Act; H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA); and H.R. 5314, the Protecting Our Democracy Act. In addition, a House-passed appropriations bill (H.R. 4502) contained funding for elections grants to states. Also during the first session, the Senate did not invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to versions of the For the People Act (S. 2093; see also S. 1); the VRAA (S. 4); and another bill, the Freedom to Vote Act (S. 2747). Early in the second session, on January 13, 2022, the House approved the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act and sent it to the Senate in the form of an amendment between the houses on an unrelated bill (H.R. 5746). On January 19, 2022, the Senate did not agree to a cloture motion on the text. The legislation combines elements of some of the bills noted above and addresses aspects of campaign finance, election administration, and voting rights. Because policy issues are not necessarily mutually exclusive, how to classify various bills could be a matter of debate. Votes on elections-related bills that have advanced during the 117th Congress primarily have occurred along party lines, amid disagreements over the extent of policy problems and appropriate federal remedies, if any. Additional activity on bills related to campaign finance, elections, or voting is possible. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN11841 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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