Susan Davis

Voting is a right, not a use it or lose it privilege.

I think what we are trying to do is think of a way that people can feel participatory in elections, including today they do not.

I would say, if for no other reason, we shouldn't pass this because it is unconstitutional. I yield back.

I think we really don't want to go there, because access is one thing, but fraud is something very different.

I think that we know that ballot harvesting, as you are thinking about it, is not the fact that people are allowed to cast absentee ballots up until election day.

There really has been nothing that has been stated that questions the ability of people to do this and to have no excuses.

You know what I am wondering here is, what excuse is justified or not justified?

So I would urge a 'no' vote.

Provisional voting is good for robust democracy and encouraging citizens to engage with voting.

I would urge a 'no' vote on this amendment.

I just wanted to--you know, the sense I get of some of these amendments is to really go backwards rather than forward.

We also know that it invades privacy.

Thank you all for your testimonies and for your past and current efforts to make our world a safer place.

I think we need to go back a little bit and just think about in H.R. 1 we are concerned about people who are voting in our national elections.

I have advocated for some time making it impossible for the chief elections official to simultaneously engage in any sort of Federal election activity, and that provision is in H.R. 1.

An inherent conflict of interest exists when a State's chief election official is responsible for monitoring and certifying the results of a Federal election while actively participating in the campaign of one of the candidates in that…

The only allegiance of a State's chief election officer must be to the voters and not to any competing political agenda.

I can assure you that we don't have a barrier when we hire someone in our office. We let them know that we are going to take a look at their accounts.

I think even from a sense of entitlement that somebody might be expressing on Twitter, which isn't blatant, I guess I would read that and I would, you know, want to know a little bit more.

In Oregon, more than 100 years ago, even before the Fair Labor Standards Act was enacted, Oregon became one of the first States to enact a minimum wage.

So the Federal minimum wage has been stagnant for too long. It has contributed to income inequality, and I am glad we are having this conversation today.

Is the nature of the asylum-seekers, though, is what they need something different? So if we had more judges and more processing capability, perhaps, that is really what is needed, not necessarily declaring a national emergency.

My constituents all live on the border, as does my colleague, Ms. Escobar. So how do we see that?

I often say to my constituents that I came in in 2001. Obviously, that day is an incredibly strong memory.

We continue to need a whole-of-government approach to adequately support national defense.