Marcia Fudge

I appreciate the spirit in which this amendment was offered, but I think H.R. 1 is an improvement.

H.R. 1 provides greater transparency related to election security vendors.

The Secure Elections Act is not a perfect bill; it is a much better starting point than H.R. 1.

If that is the case, Mr. Davis, then I think we need to go back and repeal the tax bill, because I know probably half of the people in this Congress benefited from it, and it had not one hearing. Not one. Not one. So if that is the case, I…

H.R. 1 would ensure that audits take place by hand rather than a machine.

Let me just suggest to the gentleman from Georgia that buying a pack of cigarettes is not a constitutional right; voting is.

We want to make sure that vote by mail is utilized in a manner throughout this Nation.

I think we need to be certain, and that is why we are asking that there is, across the board, no-excuse opportunities for people to vote by mail.

If something like this is still happening in 2020, I am going to be a mad sister, I promise you.

We are going to make sure that all the people we represent know that we represent them, not just the ones we like.

I want to remind people that States' rights is why we had slavery as long as we did.

It is time for good people to ensure that every American has the unfettered and unabridged right to vote in this country.

This is the democracy upon which all democracies are measured.

We are going to ensure by the time we get to 2020 we will not be dealing with the same issues that we are dealing with today.

We are here because we are going to make it right. At some point, we are going to make it right.

I want to thank my distinguished colleague who is going to be here shortly, Rep. John Lewis, a living hero of the Civil Rights movement, for welcoming us so warmly to his district as we continue this important work.

I cannot think of a better place to continue our discussion on why all sections of the Voting Rights Act are still essential to ensuring all Americans can exercise their Constitutional right to vote than in this State, the State of Georgia.

It is important for us to understand that is the same Jon Husted who every single election decides to change the rules.

It is just shameful to me that we turn around and we talk about all these little loopholes.

I understand what is going on with our Secretary of State. We would say it a different way. We would say it is the fox watching the hen house.

I am sworn to uphold it all of the time.

What we ought to be doing is trying to make sure that we as Members of Congress provide a service to the people who brought us here.

Sometimes government is not the answer, especially when we have a shutdown that the President bragged he would be proud to own.

It is a civil right, which it is, that is where we need to actually fund the schools in urban and rural areas.

That is where we need to actually fund the schools in urban and rural areas where kids are not getting what they need.