Holding the '22 Winter Olympics in China and allowing its authoritarian government to reap the rewards in prestige and propaganda of hosting this globally beloved event does not uphold the Olympic spirit.

We would continue to express our views and values around human rights and encourage them to be in the selection and engage with host governments on this important topic.

What we see across the Nation is it is so easy to discourage or obstruct voting on Election Day.

Every person removed incorrectly is a person who has been denied the right to vote.

We are not going to be satisfied until we fully defend and protect the right to vote for every American, take on the issue of billionaires buying elections with dark money, and end gerrymandering.

We have a bill, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which says that denial of the ability to vote or the abridgement to vote is unlawful when it is targeted at communities of color.

Promising to do it in a future election is pretty irrelevant because they could change the precinct locations anyway in all sorts of other fashions.

In fact, they made it worse because they said if you vote out of precinct on Election Day, too bad, your vote is burned up, wasted, tossed aside.

John Lewis said the right to vote is precious. It is almost sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society.

It is certainly important that there not be a process that invalidates the right of citizens to vote.

I am just extraordinarily appalled by this.

As the Chairwoman pointed out, in Oregon we have had vote by mail. It was initiated by Republicans in our state who wanted to increase turnout in the Republican Party.

I am very struck that there was a significant factor of using long lines and fewer voting locations targeted at communities of color, and it is just wrong on every moral, ethical, and perhaps legal level.

Elections should not be controlled by partisan local boards or have the state legislature be able to stack the state election board.

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I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar No. 92, S. Res. 107. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A…

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