The us. Is increasingly a country in which one political party wants as many americans as possible to help choose our representatives, and the other party quite openly does not. In january 20, nineteenth, the democrats took control of the us. House and passed their first bill, h r one. They called it the for the people act. Over in the senate, the republican majority leader, mitch mc connell steps to the podium,. i spoke for the first time yesterday on the subject that house democrats have crowned their signature effort for this congress: H r one - also known as the democratic politician protection act.