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On the recordSeptember 18, 2024
I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, go to any community anywhere in this country and walk up to someone on the street and say: Do you think it makes sense--in light of the fact that 10 million migrants have come into the country in 3\1/ 2\ years and 99 of those individuals are on the terrorist watch list-- do you think it makes sense before a new voter registers to vote that they demonstrate they are a citizen of this great country? Any person you ask that question to will say: Well, of course, of course that makes sense. Every Democrat and Republican district will all say the same thing. Everyone will agree with that except Democrats in the United States House of Representatives. They disagree with that. They say: No, no, no. We can't have that requirement on a bill that spends what we are already spending. We can't put that requirement on a bill. That is ridiculous. As Sarah Huckabee Sanders said a couple of years ago in response to the state of the Union, the divide in America today is normal versus crazy. It is a crazy policy position not to agree with that, not to put the SAVE Act on this bill. Think of the positions the left now takes. It is crazy to defund the police, it is crazy not to have a border, and it is crazy to say that men can compete against women in sports.…
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Jim Jordan
Republican · Ohio
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Sep 18, 2024

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