Joe Morelle

I expect to support a bill on the integrity of our campaign finances.

I am also looking forward to our discussion on the elections-related measures on the agenda and expect to support a bill on the integrity of our campaign finances.

I am pleased to see several important bills aimed at improving legislative branch operations and supporting our cultural institutions on the agenda.

It has been more than 100 years since the inception of the House Office of Legislative Counsel...

I appreciate everyone bringing it forward. I think this is a great idea.

I think this really is significant.

Explain to me, if you can, why counting ballots can extend beyond election night.

No one has the right to interfere with elections and that includes the President of the United States.

I am pleased to have worked with them to pass a bipartisan bill.

Democracy is on the line this November.

We must do more to fully fund our elections.

Our elections are secure.

There is no such right.

Let me also begin by offering words of remembrance for both the victims of 9/11 and the first responders.

For months, we have heard the former President and others refuse to say whether they will accept the outcome of the election or condition their acceptance within if they are free and fair.

In Michigan, as Secretary Benson knows all too well, a Republican candidate for Congress used an AI-generated audio of Martin Luther King, Jr., purporting to endorse him in a political campaign.

Thank you for all the work that you do and let us make sure that every American has free, fair, and secure access to the ballots this November.

Sort of undoing civil service protections, returning to a spoils system, would sort of return us to a lot of the sort of waste and abuse that really characterized 19th century American politics.

The President has, quote, 'an existential need for aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch.'

I feel again like that, yes, oh, yes, here, it would only cost $3 million to do this thing, but you only have $100,000.

I do agree with you.

I would triple the House appropriation.

This decision would continue that trend certainly.

I continue to be really concerned about the size and the capacity of Congress to do it and particularly given the environment we are in where we have not been able to pass a legislative appropriation that is so small.

The President has an existential need for aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch.