On the recordJanuary 6, 2022
I won't read all of it, obviously, but the point that this editorial makes is that the attack continues today. It is not over. It is not some event in the past that we are just reflecting upon, as important as it is to reflect and remember and offer gratitude and commendation. Here is what the editorial says, and I will just read a short portion of it. It says: [T]he attack continues. It carries on in statehouses like Pennsylvania's, where lawmakers continue to question the outcome of the 2020 presidential election--the most transparent and heavily scrutinized vote in [our] nation's history--craft bills to diminish the sort of heavy turnout that carried . . . Joe Biden to victory, waste public money on fraudulent searches for fraud, and gerrymander congressional districts in the cause of minority rule. It goes on from there, saying that the attack continues by all of this work to lie about the election of 2020 and to pass voter suppression bills all across the country. The good news is, that is not going to happen. We are not going to allow a partisan minority to prevent us from passing legislation to keep that pathway to the right to vote clear in the ways that it was clear so that so many Pennsylvanians and many Americans--as I said, in my home State, hundreds of thousands more voted in a pandemic than voted just 4 years earlier.…





