[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 58 (Tuesday, April 1, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H1400]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        DISENFRANCHISING VOTERS

  (Mr. VEASEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. VEASEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the so-called 
SAVE Act.
  This bill, coupled with the President's executive order on elections, 
is a crazy, disgusting, thinly veiled attempt at disenfranchising legal 
citizens from voting.
  It claims to make it illegal for noncitizens to vote, which we 
already know is not a problem, but this bill would also disenfranchise 
millions of Americans who don't even have a passport. Millions of 
Americans do not have a passport.
  It also hurts people who were born in rural America, people who were 
born during a time when births were recorded in family Bibles.
  This would just really be devastating. It would also hurt women whose 
legal names do not match their birth names.
  It would end automatic voter registration, voter registration by 
mail, and other reforms many States have adopted, overriding federalism 
and State control over elections.
  This bill is part of a long-term effort by Republicans to literally 
make it harder to vote.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues, when this bill comes up, to vote 
``no'' because it will be a disaster for America and a disaster for 
democracy.

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