Mr. Chairman, this amendment strikes in its entirety subtitle D of the bill, through which Republicans would impose their wish list of restrictive voting policies upon the District of Columbia.

What D.C. needs is statehood.

I support Ranking Member Morelle on setting up such a commission and naming it after Frederick Douglass.

we must recommit ourselves to the ideal that every American should have a voice in our democracy.

early voting is such a critical tool to give voters access to the polls, and especially working Americans the freedom to vote at a time of their choosing and ensure that no American has to choose between their job and their fundamental…

the First and the 14th Amendment of the Constitution protects the fundamental right to vote, including the right of all Americans to vote safely and accessibly.

Today we are taking up a bill, the ACE Act, that would suppress vote versus allowing people to vote more freely.

For centuries, African Americans were systematically denied the opportunity to pursue a higher education, build wealth, and achieve financial independence, leaving behind a painful legacy of discrimination that persists to this day. Let us…

Instead of a lack of confidence in our elections, the American people are worried about backsliding toward autocracy.

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.

I mean, we heard it right here when we talk about the Georgia election. You know, if lack of ballots, if missing power cords that led to 3-plus hours of wait time, purging over 53,000 voters, lack of training for the staff to help them…

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…