[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 12, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H47]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 NEW WAVE OF VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS

  (Mr. ESPAILLAT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ESPAILLAT. Mr. Speaker, we are seeing a wave of voter suppression 
efforts show their ugly heads across this country, a crisis of 
unprecedented proportion that is cracking at the very foundation of our 
democratic process.
  Republicans have continued to push lies and conspiracy theories to 
depress voter turnout and sow mistrust in our elections at the highest 
levels.
  It is time that we choose: the filibuster or our democracy. We cannot 
allow arcane Senate rules to stand in the way of this Congress 
upholding its most basic constitutional responsibilities, at one of the 
most critical junctures in our history.
  It is incumbent on us to restore the voting rights protections that 
our Nation's civil rights leaders bled to secure.
  This Congress can and will fight against these draconian measures, to 
restore and expand the sacred right to vote.
  History will remember anyone who stands in our way.

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