Ensuring every eligible American can cast a ballot is a goal we should all strive for.

Congress should be focused on expanding access to the ballot and ensuring voters in every State have access to the franchise.

The 2020 election was the most secure election in U.S. history.

I am so honored to represent them since I grew up in the Black Belt, yes.

I thank Chairman Johnson for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of S.J. Res. 11, a resolution nullifying the EPA's overreaching rule on American trucks. Mr. Speaker, the American people cannot afford yet another misguided Biden…

The continued failure to acknowledge or accept that fact by the majority actually undermines voter confidence.

the delays in foreign military sales truly are putting, I believe, putting the American people at risk.

It used to that be, under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act... had to seek permission from the courts before they could implement new voting laws.

When the majority release clear topline funding limits-- when they finally do it for each of the Subcommittees, we will see the full scope of the damage that they have in store for the American people.

Unfortunately, what you've seen in the last 10 years is this sort of the floodgates have opened to laws that have made it much more difficult for people to vote.

Congress must work to pass pro voter, pro democracy legislation and policies.

I think it is about voter access. Am I right?

Enslaved persons, indentured servants, Native Americans, and women were all denied the right to vote.

We must celebrate increases in voter participation, not respond with restrictions on voter access.

I ask unanimous consent to enter into the record two reports, each prepared by former chairs of the Subcommittee, Marcia Fudge, G.K. Butterfield, documenting the State of voting in America and the disparate impact election administration…

We should be working for peace through strength, not exhibiting the vulnerabilities of our allies.

The voters of Alabama and every other State should have access to every possible venue and avenue for casting a ballot.

We do know that, on January 6, when insurrectionists terrorized the Capitol, which was incited by Donald Trump's failure to accept that he lost the election, when we were here trying to certify the election, those false allegations of…