Bipartisanship will matter when we have a fair election process that does not allow ballot harvesting.

We are assuming in California, because the election results have seated Members of Congress, that there wasn't fraud, but we cannot sit here and say that this process is not ripe for fraud.

We have got to make sure we have processes in place that don't encourage that.

There have been no credible reports of fraudulent or otherwise illegal provisions in California.

Because the sheer fact is, if somebody grabs a bunch of ballots and they are coming in, in California, and it was so late to count these ballots because they kept coming in, your congressional districts aren't that big.

The sheer fact that ballots were coming in after election day shows this process is ripe for possible fraud.

Not everyone in the election process is a do-gooder like all of us sitting here at this table. There are bad people, and bad people are going to take advantage of bad processes.

This amendment would make sure that people could vote on election day in absentee.

We are addressing a process that is legal in the State of California right now for anybody to go and pick up ballots and then be trusted to bring them back to the election officials' office without any bipartisanship that occurs.

I think that your amendment doesn't even have the courage of its convictions.

I think this shows--the debate we are having here today shows clearly that this Committee ought to have a hearing on ballot harvesting.