[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 40 (Wednesday, March 3, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1020]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        A TRAVESTY FOR AMERICANS

  (Mr. GIMENEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIMENEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 1.
  Americans love election season. They absolutely love the endless 
political ads, having their phones blown up by political calls and 
texts, and having their email inboxes littered with solicitations from 
want-to-be politicians. My phone keeps ringing off the hook from all of 
my constituents just pleading for Congress to use their dollars to fund 
more campaign ads.
  This is the fantasy world that government bureaucrats and career 
politicians who want a Federal takeover of our elections live in. They 
want to take Americans' money and give it to campaigns at a 6-to-1 
ratio, effectively forcing you to finance political campaigns you don't 
support.
  H.R. 1, the so-called For the People Act, weaponizes the FEC into a 
partisan commission and throws out commonsense voter I.D. laws, just to 
name a few. As one of the only Members of Congress who has actually had 
to implement election protocols, I speak on authority when it comes to 
our elections. This bill is a travesty for all Americans.

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