Joe Morelle: “People died. We almost lost our democracy. We could have a hundred hearings to deflect blame, but the facts are not…”

This bill is not meant to secure American elections; it’s meant to ensure certain Americans cannot access the ballot easily.

angry if Democrats in the Senate ended up voting with Republicans to approve the GOP-crafted funding bill.

I rise today on the 16th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, a decision that disfigured our political landscape, reorienting power away from voters and toward corporate and wealthy special interests…

I think for all the reasons that have been described, this is an important part of maintaining the history of the last 250 years and making certain that we preserve this so that future generations will know how we got here and how we see…