Political Quotes

“Late yesterday afternoon my Republican colleagues and I learned that Democrats were dropping H.R. 1 and H.R. 4 into what was supposed to be a NASA bill. The American people join me in wondering why Democrats must resort to procedural gimmicks to ram voting rights bills to the floor. The answer is simple: Democrats are out of touch with Americans, who repeatedly rejected the Biden administration's far-left agenda, including its latest attempt to destroy the power of States to run their own elections. Unfortunately, we are hearing the same message today that we have heard over and over again from the Democrats: That minority Americans are not smart enough, not educated enough, and incapable of following basic rules to vote in Federal elections. And I am personally offended by this narrative. Earlier this year, Senate Democrats held a hearing titled: ``Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote'' where they compared the recent voting laws in Georgia to the Jim Crow laws in the days of segregation. As I stated in that hearing, I grew up in the Deep South during the era of actual Jim Crow laws that suppressed voting. What does actual voter suppression look like? It looks like poll taxes, property tests, literacy tests, and violence and intimidation at the polls. It looks like the segregated schools I attended in Florida or the separate drinking fountains and restrooms that my race was forced to use.…”