res. 183, and the videos of his house floor speeches: h.r. 1 "today, i voted against speaker nancy pelosi's top priority - h.r. 1. i believe this bill is a deliberate attempt by the house democratic majority to suppress first amendment rights, spend taxpayer dollars and empower washington bureaucrats - all under the guise of election reform. "in my close examination of this flawed bill, i found that it threatens the free speech of all americans by transforming the federal election commission into a partisan body that would limit how americans can petition their government through vague and arbitrarily-enforced standards. 