Rae Oliver Davis

I disagree with the assessment that Article I gives us, in Congress, the ability to tell election officials nationwide how to run their elections.

By all appearances, H.R. 1 is simply a way for political operatives to enrich themselves.

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

H.R. 1 was drafted to serve the special interest of Democrats and the outside organizations that support the Democratic Party.

The greatest threat to our Nation's election system is partisanship.

These automatic voter registration requirements propose to fix a nonexistent problem.

This provision in H.R. 1 would prohibit States from treating 16- and 17-year-olds as ineligible to vote for purposes of automatic registration.

Your bill would not allow this. Your bill would not allow this to happen.

We have got to slow down. We have got to have more hearings.

Somebody in my district with Illinois election authorities can walk in with something like a Jimmy John's receipt that is a proof of address, without any verification on that same day.

Nobody should codify lining the campaign coffers of people sitting around this dais, which this portion of the bill does.

I support the passage of this amendment.

We were forced to do it in a bipartisan way.

This provision proposes to force every State to adopt automatic voter registration and, in addition, force most State agencies to transfer customer records to their State election agency for the purposes of registration.

I request a recorded vote.

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

This amendment strikes section 1041. The section would place additional conditions that States must meet to remove registrants from voter rolls through cross-check systems.

We need to have more processes. We ought to have more hearings.

Somebody who wrote the bill shouldn't be able to profit from it, because it is going to put billions upon billions upon billions of dollars.

Are the taxpayers in this country clamoring to get dark money out of politics, saying replace it--or not even replace it, add to it.

We should absolutely--absolutely--be in favor of increasing access to polls, but without adding the necessary checks and balances to ensure these practices are protected, we are opening the door for fraud in our election system.

Madam Chairperson, pursuant to House Rule XI, clause 2(l), I request that all Members have two additional calendar days to file supplemental minority additional or dissenting views in the Committee report to the House accompanying H.R. 1.

Clearly, clearly, the cosponsors of this bill have not taken into any consideration the billions, possible trillions, of dollars that this bill would cost.

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

I support measures to increase those numbers, but using taxpayers dollars to take Federal workers away from their duties is not the way to do it.