tl;dr: The Republicans want to make it:
Easier to get guns
Harder to report government ethics violations
Easier for companies to pollute and harder to report it or get information about it
Harder to understand the relationships between businesses and government officials vis a vis the fees they pay to get mineral exploration rights
In short, the Republicans are using simple majority measures to expand corruption, pollution and malfeasance and at the same time make it much harder for t