Mike Lee

Reasoning · 20 wordsWhether you call it hypocrisy and inconsistency or something else, it can’t be reconciled with what they themselves have done. Claims · 34 wordsNow, I have got a copy right here of a significant portion of that bill, the bill offered up by the Senate Democrats in 2021 during the 117th Congress--the so-called For the People Act.¹ Aside · 39 wordsI mean, what is not to like if you are for the people? And if you are against that, apparently, you are against the people. Maybe we should have thought of that when we named the SAVE America Act.Aside Procedure · 9 wordsBut, regardless, that horse is out of the barn.Procedure Claims · 107 wordsThis is a part of that bill, and it is the specific part of the bill in subtitle 1, section 1709 that requires voter ID.² You see, the Democrats themselves had their own voter ID act, their own voter ID legislation. This is not State legislation; this is right here in this Chamber. They wanted to pass their own voter ID law. Now, theirs is a little different than ours. Theirs is a little bit more permissive. They allow all sorts of other things, like--depending on how you read it, you could argue that a library card without your picture on it would even suffice under this. Aside · 7 wordsI wouldn’t draw it quite like that, AsideClaims · 49 wordsbut the point is they were going to do something to require voter ID. Even though we might draw the boundaries a little bit differently than they do--and we, in fact, do in ours--they were doing the very same thing that they are now condemning us for doing because, Reasoning · 44 wordsif the SAVE America Act is commandeering a State issue on the part of the Federal Government, then so, too, was the For the People Act. If it is wrong to have--and if it is disenfranchisement to require--voter ID, then theirs does that, too. Positioning · 26 wordsIt is just that ours is well written. Theirs was a little bit sloppy. But, you know, it was a step, maybe, in the right direction.Positioning Reasoning · 21 wordsThe point is, they have no leg to stand on when claiming that the Federal Government has no business doing this. Procedure · 2 wordsWhy? Well, ProcedureClaims · 42 wordsbecause, first of all, it flatly contradicts article I, section 4 of the Constitution, ³which plainly does give us that authority to operate within the space as it relates to Federal elections. And, secondly, this is something they themselves have already done.