[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 54 (Monday, March 23, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S1526]
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                            SAVE America Act

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, we have been debating the SAVE America Act 
for 7 days now, and what has been made clear in this debate is how out 
of touch Democrats are with most Americans.
  Polls show that the commonsense policies in the SAVE America Act have 
support from the American people, but Democrats have repeatedly 
demonstrated they don't share the American people's interest in 
securing our elections.
  And despite Americans' concerns, Democrats continue to embrace 
transgender ideology that allows men to compete in women's sports and 
children--children--to undergo irreversible, life-altering gender 
transition procedures.
  At the start of this debate, the Democratic leader had the audacity 
to say that the SAVE America Act is a ``radical bill.'' ``Radical''--
that is what he said.
  Well, what is radical, I would say, about ensuring that only American 
citizens are voting in American elections? What is radical about asking 
voters for a photo ID?
  And I don't know what world Democrats are living in, where keeping 
biological men out of women's sports is a radical proposition.
  What is radical is men lining up alongside women at the starting line 
and winning medals and trophies meant for women. What is radical is 
telling female athletes that they have to share a locker room with a 
biological male. That is radical.
  Now, perhaps what is most radical about Democrats' position is that 
they seem to have no problem with gender transition procedures for 
minors. Democrats are more than happy to let transgender ideology 
reign, even when there is little to no evidence to support gender 
transition procedures for minors and increasing amounts of scientific 
evidence about the harms of these procedures for children.
  But Democrats ignore the science. They ignore the fact that multiple 
European nations that have looked at the science have reined in gender 
transition procedures for minors.
  They ignore the stories of Americans who underwent irreversible 
procedures as minors and have long lived to regret it.
  So the SAVE America Act is not radical--radically common sense, 
maybe--so common sense, in fact, that only congressional Democrats 
could oppose it.