Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 6513) to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to confirm the requirement that States allow access to designated congressional election observers to observe the election administration procedures in congressional elections. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 6513 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Confirmation Of Congressional Observer Access Act of 2023'' or the ``COCOA Act of 2023''. (b) Findings Relating to Congressional Election Observers.--Congress finds the following: (1) Article 1, section 5, clause 1 of the Constitution grants Congress the authority to ``be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members''. (2) The House of Representatives serves as the final arbiter over any contest to the seating of any putative Member-elect. (3) Congress has exercised this authority--and responsibility--since our Nation's very beginning, from the First Congress through the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress. Over our history, election contests have remained a normal and regular part of the biennial process for electing, recognizing, and seating new Members.…”