That is why in the Secure and Trusted Communications Network Act, Congress took a bipartisan action to help smaller carriers remove untrusted equipment.

This is an exercise in advancing a political narrative.

The chaos that ensued as a result of the 2020 election was occasioned because of all those irregularities.

I hope today we can have a productive conversation about voting rights and how we can best safeguard the ability of all eligible Americans to vote.

Our extraordinary Republic has endured for nearly two and a half centuries based in large part on the understanding that our elections will be fair and free and secure.

This legislation is just another example of a politically motivated power grab to enable partisan Federal bureaucrats to control our State election laws.

This is about Federal control, a Federal takeover of an area that has always been within the jurisdiction of the States.

This bill seeks to lower the triggering mechanism, which subjects jurisdictions to preapproval from the Department of Justice.

Let me be clear. Republicans want every legally cast ballot to count, but the only way to give legal votes the weight they deserve is to close the door to fraud and illegally cast ballots.

Unfortunately, just like H.R. 1, the misleadingly named For the People Act, H.R. 4 seeks to federalize elections.

Our Constitution and our institutions will endure, but only if we support and defend them.

H.R. 4 is hugely problematic.

The bottom line is, Republicans want every legal vote to count, want to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat.

Isn't it true that States are still best situated to enact changes in election law?

The real aim of the Act is to reverse the decision in Shelby County.

I ask for your assistance with helping local government in my district fully understand the pre-disaster mitigation grant process and other resources that are available to them.

However, President Biden and Speaker Pelosi respectfully have been somewhat of an obstacle to the swift approval of supplemental disaster funding for Louisiana.

May I say that we are beyond the time for consideration. It has been 10 months.