Claudia Tenney: “With all due respect to the gentlewoman from Connecticut, none of the specious political falsities that she just…”

“With all due respect to the gentlewoman from Connecticut, none of the specious political falsities that she just described have anything to do with enhancing the right of each citizen to vote in each election. This is an inappropriate and unconstitutional federalization of elections, something that is prohibited by the Constitution that every single person in this room has taken an oath to uphold. Nothing has been more devastating to election integrity than the kind of interference and mission creep that we are seeing by this weaponized Biden administration to try to take our elections and try to manipulate the vote. One citizen, one vote is the most sacred honor that we have as citizens. This needs to be protected under our Constitution. Election integrity is definitely considered under the purview of the States. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time. {time} 0040 Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chair, it really is quite amazing that when the States have their purview. We have just been through an extraordinary time where States have legitimized the election of the President of the United States, and we have a whole bunch of folks here who deny what the States have said about the legitimate election of the President of the United States. Again, the right to vote is the foundation of American democracy. That is what this is about.…”