Jodey Arrington: “May I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas has 15 seconds remaining.”

Mr. Speaker, there is not a better example of political expediency than my Democrat colleagues opposing a voter ID law on the grounds of States' rights. First, the Constitution is clear. Rules for running elections have been delegated to…

the Democrats fought Republicans to require voter ID to protect the integrity of our elections, the cornerstone of our democratic Republic. Now they stand here today on the floor of the people's house, fighting the President in his effort…

We are rallying to finish what we started when the American people sent us here.

Mr. Speaker, the 19-century French philosopher, Alexis de Tocqueville, traveled across the United States in the early 1800s in search of what he said was "America's genius and greatness." He said that it wasn't in the commodious harbors or…