I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I rise in support the underlying legislation. Madam Chair, H.R. 2157 totals $17.3 billion in emergency disaster appropriations to provide relief and recovery assistance for Americans affected by recent…

Have we seen evidence in the State of Florida of individuals who have been improperly purged from the voter rolls?

If a foreign country used our present system, we would condemn it, and we would send the Jimmy Carter or the Ronald Reagan Foundations over there to straighten things out.

Thank you very much. And, Ms. Wilkerson, first of all, thank you so much for the work that the League of Women Voters has done over decades.

I have joined many others around the country in calling their decision what it is, to require all fines and fees and restitution... a poll tax.

The Florida legislature had one job, not three, and the one job was for Florida to follow the amendment for plain language.

We have gone in Florida from in 2012, preredistricting, with Florida being a 50/50 State, we had a congressional delegation with 25 Members of Congress, 19 Republicans and 6 Democrats.

Voting should be free, period.

Voting should be free, period. When it costs the voter money to cast or return their ballot, whether it is paying a fee for ID or paying for postage to mail their ballot, it is tantamount to a poll tax.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I am concerned that our flawed signature verification system in our state chipped away at the fundamental right to vote.

We want to make sure, I think, that we can have every vote counted.

Should there be a uniform policy that allows voters to have their vote by mail ballots count as long as they are postmarked by Election Day?

But it happens every single day.

I think it's absolutely essential that we do hold a hearing. There's nothing partisan about this issue. We are all potentially endangered.

This incident did expose potentially serious holes in our postal system security.

Again, trying to assess the seriousness of the administration's commitment to protect in 2020, last week, President Trump's son-in-law and Senior Advisor Jared Kushner characterized Russian interference in the 2016 election as a couple of…

I still need an answer about what is being done to follow up to make sure that security officers at the facility are not treating the people who are presenting at the office with an appointment rudely.

So why is the number so low when the reports of CBP abuse and misconduct are so commonplace?

At any given time in my community, you have immigrants who show up for supervisory review appointments and have no idea whether the rug is going to suddenly be pulled out from under them.

The answer that I got in writing was insufficient and didn't provide me with an answer other than the policy about what is supposed to happen rather than trying to get to the bottom of what is actually happening.

But if we are really taking this seriously and having it be more than hash tag protect 2020 then one would hope that the president of the United States would be briefed and be fully aware of the risk and be a part of directing what it is…

But I am talking about the actual apprehension----

I appreciate your kind words and your underscoring the importance of security for our postal workers throughout the entire system.

If my child was apprehended and they were 2 hours from me and I was not contacted and given an opportunity to come get her, that to me--I would be flipping out.