[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 65 (Thursday, April 10, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H1584]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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           PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS TO VOTE

  (Mr. MEUSER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MEUSER. Mr. Speaker, this morning, all 216 of my GOP colleagues, 
along with just four out of 212 Democrats, passed the SAVE Act, which 
is a bill that mandates proof of citizenship for those registering to 
vote.
  I think most people think that is already required and mandated. 
Guess what. Even though it is in the Constitution and Federal law 
mandates that only citizens can vote, there are States that have 
systems in place that allow noncitizens to register. Guess what. They 
vote.
  To address this problem, the SAVE Act also requires States to 
establish a program to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. Just 
last month, even though Iowa did what it could to correct this problem, 
277 noncitizens were on the voter rolls and 35 of them voted. That may 
not sound consequential, but there are races that are decided by less 
than that.
  The votes against the SAVE Act today were nothing more than to allow 
noncitizens to vote in the United States of America. I think that falls 
into the category of the 80/20 position. All I know, Mr. Speaker, is a 
vote against the SAVE Act today was a vote against American citizens' 
voting rights.

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