Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague from Missouri, Senator Blunt, for his leadership on this issue. We had the hearing and the markup in the Rules Committee. I think that we could tell from the debate that the amount of holes and misinformation that is contained within S. 1 is the reason that I call it the so-called For the People Act. Ronald Reagan famously said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are ``I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'' This can be applied to many examples of what we do here. What seems more pertinent, I think, now is this latest partisan attempt to federalize one of America's most sacred functions, and that is our elections. Advocates claim that this sweeping effort, which comes in the form of legislation ironically called For the People Act, is to get more people to vote. Let's be clear. Everyone--Republicans, Democrats, Independents--we all want to see more people voting. The good news is that we have already been doing that across the country and in my home State of West Virginia. Remember, last year we were voting under a pandemic, under incredibly difficult situations for everybody. Our State of West Virginia ran a very successful election suited to our State. We had thousands more people vote in 2020 than they did in 2016. In fact, the total number of ballots cast in 2020 was more than any other election in West Virginia's history, with the exception of the 1960 election.…”