Political Quotes

“Mr. President, in reserving the right to object, I ask you this: How many times do we have to go through this? Less than 2 months ago, I came down to the floor of the Senate to object to this very same bill--expressing concerns, answering questions--and here we are again, and nothing has changed. So it doesn't matter how many times this bill comes to the floor. It doesn't matter how many times our Republican colleagues feign outrage over noncitizens unlawfully voting--without a shred of evidence--it doesn't change the fact that, as good as the proponents may make this bill sound or try to make this bill sound, it is nothing other than a solution in search of a problem. Now, I speak both as a Senator representing California but also as a former chief elections officer of California, where I--as the secretaries of State across the country, by the way--worked alongside tireless election clerks and administrators across the political spectrum at the State and local levels. Given that experience, I can tell you this: There is no credible evidence of a meaningful number of noncitizens voting in our elections. In 2016, audits showed that noncitizens accounted for 0.0001 percent of the vote. Even the conservative Cato Institute has said: Noncitizens don't illegally vote in detectable numbers.…”