Joe Morelle

I fervently believe Congress has a duty to stem the tide of foreign money in our elections.

Everything this Committee has sought to do, everything the former President seeks to do, is undermine that very faith.

Noncitizen voting in our elections must be stopped.

Plans like this Project 2025 and Conservative activists, like those called by the majority, are preparing to assist Donald Trump's administration implement catastrophic policies

The architects of a day one dictator plan to this hearing, and I think it shows how extreme and undemocratic the entire exercise is

The unsubstantiated fearmongering about insecure elections, voter fraud, that we heard in the days, weeks, and months leading up to the January 6th deadly attacks on the Capitol

This hearing is not a serious effort to stop noncitizens from voting, which does not happen and is already illegal.

It is unlawful for noncitizens to vote in Federal elections.

Republicans are not governing based on facts. Frankly, they are not governing at all, and it is an embarrassment.

MAGA extremists are laying the groundwork to overturn the 2024 election, to betray, once again, the will of the American people.

The coup starts here. This is where it begins.

It is unconscionable that the same cast of characters that tried to steal an election 4 years ago are preparing to do it again.

MAGA Republicans are howling about this nonissue, not because they believe American elections are insecure.

These laws are already on the books, and these laws work.

We know this is untrue because we know the law is already clear.

Frankly, they are not governing at all, and it's an embarrassment.

What does Speaker Johnson have to say on the subject? Just last week, he declared that he knows intuitively that a lot of noncitizens are voting in Federal elections, but it has not been something that is easily provable.

Today's hearing is not actually about noncitizens illegally voting in Federal elections. Even the Conservative Cato Institute acknowledges this is not a problem.

MAGA extremists are laying the ground work to overturn the 2024 election, to betray, once again, the will of the American people.

Donald Trump's unprecedented attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power is an appalling stain on American history.

Let me be clear. Noncitizen voting reduces confidence in our elections.

I take that as a good sign. I hope this means, at the very least, most of my colleagues on this Committee are unwilling to entwine their names for posterity to these obvious lies to this disgraceful effort to subvert and downgrade our…

We are desperately concerned about notions that, even here we are, 3 and a half years later, the former President continuing to insist that there is fraud in a 2020 election despite the countless lawsuits, all the evidence to the contrary.

American elections are for American citizens, and we intend to keep it that way.

At some point, when this is going on, in the midst of the chaos, if only a few minutes goes by and something is not happening, I am picking up the damn phone, I am going to find out exactly what is going on.