"It is not based on trying to vet any kind of fraud. There was no fraud in Texas in the last election."
"we have to allow the people to vote and let it come out as it will."
"What our bill is trying to do is to expand the protections to election administrators that exist for voters from intimidation and threatening, to strengthen protections for federal election records."
"We can’t allow that to happen in this country."
"As she said, it`s still a very bad bill. And one of the provisions you didn`t have in there in your excellent summary was allowing poll watchers to have free movement in the polling place."
"This special session is motivated by that big lie. It`s still with us. We have to beat this. We have to beat it with federal legislation."
"We just have to have a partner in the Senate."
"I think it`s certainly time for the president to make pushing to pass H.R.1 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, to make those as high priority as anything else on his agenda."
"Anytime we’re talking about making it easier to overthrow elections, we’re talking about really going to the heart of democracy."
"we need to have federal voting protections as we`ve talked about to try and make sure that these things don`t ever go into place."
"You can save our democracy by being the one who makes this happen."
"That’s what I think this can be about."