Joe Morelle: “The SAVE Act is, to put it nicely, the most severe voter suppression bill ever considered at the Federal level. Coupled…”

“The SAVE Act is, to put it nicely, the most severe voter suppression bill ever considered at the Federal level. Coupled with President Trump's recent antivoter executive order, the SAVE Act would end the voter registration process for all Americans as they know it. Republicans have repeatedly failed to present any evidence that noncitizen voting at the Federal level has ever affected the outcome of any election. The SAVE Act will make it harder for American citizens to vote--for married women to vote, for servicemembers, students, rural Americans, senior citizens, Native voters, survivors of natural disasters, and survivors of domestic abuse to vote. It will make voting more expensive, in fact forcing American families to pay billions of dollars just to register to vote. Democrats want a country where every American citizen can vote. That is why we champion bills like the Freedom to Vote Act, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and the Native American Voting Rights Act, not the SAVE Act. I fiercely oppose this anti-American bill. I urge every one of my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats alike, to defeat this extremist, antivoter SAVE Act. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”