Roy Blunt: “reserving the right to object, I must admit I was sitting here, and I thought I was coming over for H.R. 1 from the…”

“reserving the right to object, I must admit I was sitting here, and I thought I was coming over for H.R. 1 from the House, which was attempted to be put on the floor--a bill that was supposedly designed to create ballot security--and I got here and found out that this is the bill that will right all wrongs. I had no idea that in one piece of legislation, so many things could happen. I understand also it is a bill that stops the subversion of the Constitution. I actually always thought a principal purpose of our Constitution was to divide between the State and the Federal Government those things that could be better done by local government and those things that could be better done by State government. That certainly is not what I heard today. I also thought that the reason for this bill supposedly from the House was a bill that would create a level of election security that I never thought the bill would create, but I haven't heard that. I almost went down to ask as my friend was finishing up, am I really here for H.R. 1, or is this some other bill that does so much more than I ever could have imagined that H.R. 1 could do? In March of 2019, the House did pass this bill. It gave unprecedented control to the Federal Government over the elections of the country. You take away--you moved as far as you possibly could, with this bill, the responsibility for running an election at a precinct in a jurisdiction.…”