Political Quotes

On the recordSeptember 23, 2020
Madam President, I want to talk for a few minutes about securing our election process. At various times, in the last 4 years, there have been different levels of reasons why the Federal Government needed to take over the election process. For a while, it was that the process was too easily infiltrated by outside influences, and then it was COVID-19, and it was important that everybody vote in different ways than they have ever voted before, and somehow only the Federal Government could manage that. I would say that, in that, just as we look toward the 2020 elections, we have spent over $1 billion. I think it is $1.2 billion in funding from the Congress. We have had dozens of hearings in the Rules Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and the Homeland Security Committee. There was a 3\1/2\-year bipartisan investigation that I was part of as part of the Intelligence Committee, and we have looked at this about every way we can. Right now, people across the country are beginning the process of casting their votes. This year, more than any other year up until now, we will have election day, but, really, we will have more like ``election month,'' and, in some States, it is going to be ``election 6 weeks'' or ``election 7 weeks.'' So this process is starting right now.…
Said by
Roy Blunt
Republican · Missouri

Share & report

More from Roy Blunt

May 18, 2022

Mr. President, in late 2016, soon after the Presidential election of that year, there was a significant portion of the political left that began referring to itself as ``the resistance.'' Apparently, these people were bent on fighting…

govinfo.gov
Dec 6, 2022

Mr. President, I want to thank my good friend Senator McConnell for his comments this morning, and I have reserved some time this afternoon for what would be my official farewell address in the Senate. But as it relates to our leader, Mr…

govinfo.gov
Jul 12, 2022

Mr. President, I want to join with my five colleagues who have been here today and the two people who were with us, Senator Durbin and Senator Fischer. I would say one of the great things about this effort was the unanimous feeling that…

govinfo.gov
Jun 23, 2022

Yes. I think the point you are making here, too, are that these are--we now have 5 years of evidence in several States, multiple years in other States. So this isn't just assuming what will happen but looking at what we have carefully…

govinfo.gov

Other voices in this conversation