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Floor Speech

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Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I come to the floor having just heard the minority leader address this body in talking about a fringe position. It has to do with voting in America in our elections.

And, essentially, what the minority leader said--he said it is fringe to have to prove that you are a citizen in order to vote. Apparently, the Democrats view that as a fringe position that you have to prove you are a citizen in order to vote in elections in the United States of America in a national election.

The minority leader additionally said it was basically fringe to have to show a photo ID when you cast a vote in an election. Those are mainstream, commonsense ideas.

The Democrats and Joe Biden let 10 million--if not more--illegal immigrants flood into this country over the 4 years of the Biden administration; and now, what do the Democrats want to do? They want to make it easier for illegal immigrants to go to the polls and to influence and have an impact on the elections in the United States of America.

To me, that is a fringe idea to allow illegal immigrants to vote, but that is what the Democrats are here promoting. I believe you should prove you are a citizen if you want to vote in the United States. I believe you need to show a photo ID when you need to vote.

That is what we have to do in my home State of Wyoming. Many States require it. But not the Democrat States that have been swamped with illegal immigrants and the sanctuary cities to allow anyone to come in, abuse the laws of the land, abuse the privileges of citizens.

That, to me, is a fringe idea, but that is what Democrats are going to stand for this week on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

You need to show an ID if you board a plane. You have got to show an ID if you go to a sporting event and buy a beer.

Why would you not have to show an ID to vote in an election in the United States? And then to hear the minority leader--I mean, it is astonishing. I wrote it down. He said: No more voter registration when you get a driver's license, as if there is something wrong with that.

Nineteen States give driver's licenses to people who are in this country illegally. So, of course, I don't want those people to be able to be registering to vote when they get a driver's license. I don't want them to even get a driver's license.

The minority leader thinks that is business as usual--give the illegal immigrants a driver's license and sign them up to vote, one step after another. We don't care if they are here legally or illegally. Sign them up. Maybe they will vote for us. That is the Democrat position in all of this.

The bill that we are going to be addressing this week on the floor, the SAVE America Act, that is the way we can have safe, secure elections that reflect the viewpoints of the American people.

So when I hear what is fringe, what I think is fringe is the Democrats in this body--and I think every one of them is going to stand with the extreme wing of their party--who want to allow illegal immigrants to vote and have an influence in the elections in this country. It is absolutely wrong.

This week, we are going to put every one of them on the record, and by the time this is over, every American is going to know that the Democrats are the party--that they are the party of illegal immigrants, open borders, and illegal voters.
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