Colin Allred

What we`re talking about here is a coup.

This is all incredibly dangerous to American democracy.

It's deeply concerning to both of us.

I think there's a lot of us who are concerned both with Iraqis and Afghanis who served with us.

I appreciate the leadership that you and President Biden have shown in not only protecting American democracy but trying to be a beacon, as we always have been, for democracy around the world.

Thank you for coming before us again, and I'll just mention how impressed I've been with your responses on a wide range of topics.

Stopping certain Americans from voting, you know, that’s how you lose your democracy. We’re having a very sanitized conversation about this pretending so to speak is it’s kind of Democrats and Republicans and the usual push and pull. This…

I think our democracy is at a tipping point. What you just talked about here is overturning elections, stopping certain Americans from voting. That’s how you lose your democracy. We’re having a very sanitized conversation about this…

This is an attack on our democracy. There`s no other way to put it and it is unacceptable.

All it does really, Lawrence, is set national standards around voting so that our democracy is not radically different from state to state.

Whatever they do in this bill, it is on top of Texas already being one of the hardest states in the nation to vote before they add anything to this.

You know this is -- the biggest divide in our, Lawrence, in my opinion isn`t between the parties and between ideologies. It`s between folks who believe in democracy and those who don`t.

I agree with Stacey Abrams. It`s not a partisan issue, it`s an issue about our democracy.

This is one of the most dangerous periods for our democracy in our history, you know, period. We had one of the worst attacks on our democracy on January 6. I was on the House floor when that happened. And now we have state after state…

I think you will see a Democratic Congress looking to limit a Democratic President right now.

To -- during this crisis, to have the arrogance and callousness to think that this is a good time to go on vacation, as Senator Cruz did, also as our attorney general did, he was in Utah.

We want to make sure we set a national standard. It should be fair. It has to be something that inspires confidence in the American people, certainly. But let`s be very clear, voter fraud is not a large risk for our country. The risk that…

What we`re seeing I think in the recent spat of laws is the most severe restrictions put on the right to vote really since the days of Jim Crow, and just like in the days of Jim Crow, we are seeing politicians using the guise of election…

And so we have to make sure that we`re prepared for these weather events, and not try to find these political games that we can play who we`re going to blame this on, and actually look into what happened, make sure that we protect people.

Well, first of all, we understand that renewable energy makes up about 10% of the Texas power system. And so while every single form of energy has gone offline during this crisis, it`s certainly not the fault of renewable energy that we`re…

We are facing a real crisis here in Dallas where folks are worried about things like hypothermia, a carbon monoxide poisoning. We have some folks who`ve been without power since Sunday night. We don`t have I think an accurate idea of when…

If there is no accountability, if there is no justice for the lives that are being trafficked by those in positions of public trust, then you can bet that this will continue.

We have Texans who are burning their furniture, who are burning and breaking down their fences for warmth and for light.

There is nothing more serious and no more higher responsibility for a state government, for a federal government than to protect the lives of your citizens.

There needs to be a changing of the guard. There need to be folks put in place who will try and protect Texans.