It is great to be here with you, and let me say how excited I am to be named chairman of this Committee's Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection.
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And the reality is, when you break democracy for anyone, you break it for everyone.
In Georgia, mail-in voting has been primarily used by Republican voters for years, 2020 was first time Democrats won both early and mail-in voting. And to break that because too many Democrats voted, because too many black and brown people…
I believe that, absolutely, business has a -- has a role to play.
I do not. I think that this has to be done by the body that in the Constitution of the United States is given the power to address this.
Congress has the power to set the manner, time and place of elections. And they should use that power by passing H.R.1 and H.R.4.
What is happening now is not just a regression to the mean. It is a regression to the meanest way possible to run elections.
The fundamental right to democracy is the ability to vote. And if there is nothing else that we would be willing to require simple -- of a simple majority to protect, it should be the right to vote.
We know that the current slate of laws that are being prescribed across this country actually take us to what looks like post-Reconstruction, Jim Crow era laws. And that`s not hyperbolic.
When you can win elections, not by having the best ideas, but by stealing the right to vote, then you do not deserve to win, and you don`t deserve to participate.
The For the People Act is so important to the Democrats` agenda, it`s dubbed H.R.1 and S.R.1 in the Senate.
If they can knock out pillar five and pillar four, we no longer have protections for our democracy. And that means Congress has to step up and act now.
To go back now, I think, would be a disservice to our citizens and a disservice to healthcare, in general.
The benefits are endless, there is no questions about it.
We have heard that there has been 10 years of progress in 1 week in telehealth.
At some point, when this pandemic ends--and it will end--at some point, people are going to list the silver linings.
We combat it first by making certain that Americans are aware of what's at stake.