Agenda 4-e - Resolution Requesting That Representative David Price Endorse Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Resolution for a Select Committee on a Green New Deal

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5 6. Restore the Glass-Steagall separation of depository commercial banks from speculative investment banks. 7. Establish a 90% tax on bonuses for bailed out bankers. 8. Support the formation of federal, state, and municipal public-owned banks that function as non-profit utilities. Under the Green New Deal we will start building a financial system that is open, honest, stable, and serves the real economy rather than the phony economy of high finance. IV—A FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY We won't get these vital reforms without a fourth and final set of reforms to give us a real, functioning democracy. Just as we are replacing the old economy with a new one, we need a new politics to restore the promise of American democracy. The New Green Deal will: 1. Revoke corporate personhood by amending our Constitution to make clear that corporations are not persons and money is not speech. Those rights belong to living,breathing human beings —not to business entities controlled by the wealthy. 2. Protect our right to vote by supporting Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s proposed"Right to Vote Amendment,"to clarify to the Supreme Court that yes, we do have a constitutional right to vote. 3. Enact the Voter Bill of Rights that will: • guarantee us a voter-marked paper ballot for all voting; • require that all votes are counted before election results are released; • replace partisan oversight of elections with non-partisan election commissions; • celebrate our democratic aspirations by making Election Day a national holiday; • bring simplified, safe same-day voter registration to the nation so that no qualified voter is barred from the polls; • do away with so-called"winner take all" elections in which the "winner" does not have the support of most of the voters, and replace that system with instant runoff voting and proportional representation, systems most advanced countries now use to good effect; • replace big money control of election campaigns with full public financing and free and equal access to the airwaves; • guarantee equal access to the ballot and to the debates to all qualified candidates; • abolish the Electoral College and implement direct election of the President; • restore the vote to ex-offenders who've paid their debt to society; and, • enact Statehood for the District of Columbia so that those Americans have representation in Congress and full rights to self rule like the rest of us. 4. Protect local democracy and democratic rights by commissioning a thorough review of federal preemption law and its impact on the practice of local democracy in the United States. This