An Alabama-led coalition of congressional candidates pledging congressional and judicial reforms will officially launch Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol.
Balance and Accountability Candidates is a national coalition of more than 60 Democratic U.S. House and Senate challengers from 35 states. Fifth Congressional District Democratic candidate Andrew Sneed founded the group.
Signatories, including three additional Alabama Democrats running for U.S. House seats, have committed to support a five-point policy outline aimed at improving congressional ethics rules and judicial accountability.
The initiative’s key commitments are congressional term limits, a ban on congressional stock trading, a five-year moratorium on members of Congress becoming lobbyists after leaving office, overturning the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC ruling and establishing an enforceable code of ethics for the Supreme Court.
The coalition’s term-limit proposal would cap U.S. representatives at six two-year terms and U.S. senators at two six-year terms.
“The reforms in the BAC Pledge enjoy supermajority support among American voters across party lines,” the coalition wrote in a press release announcing Wednesday’s event. “BAC gives voters a clear, verifiable tool: a public list of candidates who have made a clear commitment to deliver structural change.”
Sneed, who is seeking the District 5 Democratic nomination as he tries to flip the seat held by U.S. Representative Dale Strong, R-Alabama, said BAC’s priorities are important to restoring Americans’ trust in elected officials.
“Our government is in critical need of reestablishing and securing its essential balance of power and profoundly increased accountability to its constituents—the people of the United States,” Sneed said.
“Believing it is not only the just course, but one requisite to renew our trust in a government ‘by and for the people,’ we the undersigned commit to tirelessly fighting for and passing these five reforms into law. This is not a partisan political issue, this is an American issue,” he said.
Sneed will appear with 18 other candidates from across the country at 9 a.m. Wednesday to deliver remarks and pledge support for the movement.
Other signatories include First Congressional District candidate Clyde Jones, Third Congressional District candidate Lee McInnis and Fourth Congressional District candidate Amanda Pusczek, all Alabama Democrats seeking to unseat Republican U.S. representatives.
Alabama’s 2026 primary election is May 19. The general election is November 3.
