Terri Sewell

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

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

For far too long that has not been the reality of our electoral process.

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

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

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

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

Voting rights and ensuring and expanding access to the franchise should not be partisan.

I want Medicare to cover it, especially since we know that for cancer, age is a determinant in the diagnosis of cancer.

Since the 116th Congress, I have been one of the leading champions of the Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Act, along with Representative Jodey Arrington.

We must also ensure that America maintains our space superiority.

Ensuring that they have the resources and support they need remain my top priority.

I think that we have to figure out a way to get some Federal oversight back in.

Never in a million years did I think that, 58 years later, a daughter of Selma would have to have a bill to restore the Voting Rights Act.

I am a staunch supporter of making sure that we have access to voting, and I believe that, when a State picks winners and losers based on that photo ID, that it is not fair.

This Committee's role in conducting oversight of Federal elections is critical.

Continuing to perpetuate false claims of rigged elections undermines voter confidence.

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the United States elections.

We should be making it easier to vote.

Our democracy does not function without them.

We must work to protect access to the ballot box, ensure States and localities have the funding and resources they need to conduct free and fair elections, protect election workers from harassment and threats.

Ensuring eligible voters have access to the franchise promotes voter confidence.

Acknowledging and alleging a lack of voter confidence or a lack of integrity in the electoral system is a false justification to rationalize the enactment of suppressive voter laws.

Perpetuating falsehoods about stolen or insecure elections undermines our confidence.

But like our tax code, there is still much work to be done.