[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1050]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          VOTER ID MEDIA BIAS

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, two-thirds of Americans say voters 
should be required to show photo identification before voting, 
according to a new Fox 5-Washington Times-Rasmussen survey. But not one 
major newspaper, aside from the Washington Times, featured those poll 
results.
  Instead, the national media have portrayed the voter ID issue as 
unpopular with voters. To the contrary, the new survey found strong 
bipartisan support for voter ID, including 63 percent of Democrats and 
Independents, as well as over three-fourths of Republicans.
  Clearly, voter ID has broad support among Americans. It's unfortunate 
you'll never hear about it from the major media.

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