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Mr. CLYDE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the SAVE America Act, which implements commonsense measures backed by the vast majority of Americans, across party lines, to secure our elections and ensure that it is easy to vote but hard to cheat.
As my great State of Georgia knows all too well, we must do more to deliver secure elections. The survival of our constitutional Republic relies on free, fair, and secure elections.
Thankfully, this legislation bolsters election integrity by requiring a government photo ID to vote, requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, and directing States to remove noncitizens from existing voter rolls.
These are not controversial issues. In fact, leftwing CNN's own recent polling shows that 83 percent of Americans support voter ID, including the majority of Republicans and Democrats, as well as voters regardless of their race.
Who would oppose such a bill and why? Unsurprisingly, my Democrat colleagues oppose the SAVE America Act because it hurts the Democratic Party's ability to cheat in our elections.
Just think of all the things Americans need an ID for, yet face absolutely no backlash from the Democratic Party. For example, to exercise another constitutional right, the Second Amendment, an individual must present a government-issued photo ID to purchase a firearm from a Federal firearms dealer. Yet, requiring identification to vote is somehow portrayed as controversial.
To underscore the Democrats' hypocrisy even further, in funding negotiations, Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are demanding that ICE agents show IDs to arrest illegal aliens. They support photo ID to enforce immigration laws but oppose photo ID to ensure our elections are secure. This is incredible hypocrisy.
In Proverbs 11:9, God says: ``The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor.'' That is exactly what Democrats are trying to do: destroy this country with their hypocrisy over voter identification.
Mr. Speaker, I support this act.
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Mr. CLYDE. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my good friend from Texas for yielding.
Mr. Speaker, the question I wanted to ask to my Democratic colleagues is that since they have made it abundantly clear that Democrats strongly oppose photo identification in order to vote, now that is a First Amendment right, so am I correct in assuming that Democrats also strongly oppose a government-issued photo ID to exercise a person's Second Amendment right? So, therefore, no ID required to buy a firearm.
If they are going to be against voter ID to exercise a First Amendment right, then I would assume also that they would be against photo ID to exercise a Second Amendment right.
I have not seen any legislation from my Democrat colleagues to do that, so I really don't believe that. I think it is all a hoax.
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