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On the recordAugust 22, 2020
I thank the ranking member and my friend for yielding. I would counter by saying the greatest threat to democracy in the country is the current majority in the House of Representatives. What we are doing even right here today, what we are doing right now, we haven't even had a hearing on this. We are going to have a hearing on Monday for something we are voting on today. Absolute political malpractice is what we are watching right here. Why do we even debate this? Why don't we have a vote and then debate it? That is the same issue as what we are doing right now. My Democratic friends over here are blaming the President as though he is involved in voter suppression. We want to talk about voter suppression. We want to talk about influencing the vote. Our own Speaker Pelosi just a little while ago had a press conference in which she was touting, 100 days ago, the HEROES Act passed. What she did not say was what was in the HEROES Act: forbidding States from having voter ID. We are going to have universal mail-in ballots, no voter ID. We are going to have ballot harvesting across the country. So, we have no purging of votes. We are just going to send out millions of ballots, among which deceased people are there, folks who have moved, or ballots just being sent out all over the place. There will be no voter IDs required. Yet, all these ballots, somebody is going to vote for them and send them back in. Talk about political malpractice.…
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Jody Hice
Republican · Georgia

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