[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10858]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS ON THE WRONG SIDE OF JUSTICE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, thousands of dead people and citizens 
of other countries are reportedly registered to vote in the 
battleground State of Florida.
  Texas, however, has passed a law that would require citizens to 
display a photo ID when they vote. But the Justice Department isn't 
interested in fixing voter integrity, even though the Supreme Court has 
said voter ID laws are constitutional.
  The DOJ, ignoring the Supreme Court decision it doesn't like, sued 
Texas anyway, claiming the law discriminates. The DOJ, with its battery 
of high-dollar lawyers, apparently has yet to find any evidence to back 
their claim, so it brought in a hired gun to try to find some support 
for its allegation--a biased liberal data group called Catalist, a 
self-defined agent for progressive organizations. So much for the DOJ 
being objective.
  Instead of attacking Texas for constitutionally enforcing the law, 
the DOJ should focus its resources on protecting the sanctity of the 
ballot box. It seems the people who would be disenfranchised by voter 
ID laws would be unlawful voters or dead people.
  The DOJ is on the wrong side of justice again.
  And that's just the way it is.

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