| For Immediate Release July 9, 2024 Contact: Taylor Haulsee WASHINGTON — At the weekly House Republican Leadership press conference this morning, Speaker Johnson argued for the swift passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act which would prevent noncitizens from voting in federal elections. Speaker Johnson also highlighted the House’s efforts to overturn the Biden Administration’s radical Title IX rewrite and called out Congressional Democrats who have lied about the President’s mental and physical condition. “Many of the Democrats want illegals to participate in our federal elections, they want them to vote. There’s no other conclusion that you can draw. When the White House announced they would veto the bill, they effectively handed our elections over to all of these illegal aliens that have come here,” Speaker Johnson said. Click here to watch Speaker Johnson’s remarks On the SAVE Act: [The White House] is claiming to oppose the bill because they say it’s going to make it harder to vote, but they know that that is not true. Many of the Democrats want all of these illegals to participate in our federal elections, they want them to vote. There’s no other conclusion that you can draw. When the White House announced they would veto the bill, they effectively handed our elections over to all of these illegal aliens that have come here. It’s a serious problem and we cannot allow a federal election to be jeopardized by people who can run into the local welfare office, sign up for taxpayer benefits and check a box that says I’m a citizen and I want to vote. This is common sense legislation. Chip Roy has done an extraordinary job, others have, in preparing this and getting it ready. We have to make sure that we don’t have an election that is flawed in this way. In states that are trying to catch these criminals, they’re identifying thousands of illegal aliens who are indeed registering and trying to vote. Some states have already done their own audits, this will make sure that we can prevent this from happening and so we got to do this. You should ask every Democrat if they’re voting against this legislation and how in the world they can justify it. On Title IX CRA: Unlike Democrats, Republicans know what a woman is and we know that women are worth protecting. We are trying to advance that cause. The Republican Party is pro-women. The Democrats have to answer for that as well. More than two thirds of Americans think that only women should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. This used to be common sense, and everyone agreed until the Biden administration, and they tried to upend that. I’m very grateful that we’re going to be able to get this passed through the House. We’ll send it to the Senate and we will dare Chuck Schumer and the Democrats over there not to take up and pass the SAVE Act and not to take up the CRA on Title IX. On Congressional Democrats dishonesty concerning the President’s condition: I mean, we could give you example, after example, after example, it’s all on tape. It’s all on record. Everybody knows it. Democrats, our colleagues, for three and a half years have been covering up this glaring problem. The staff in the White House has been covering it up and so have the Democrats in Congress. Just last month – I brought a couple of examples – Representative Dan Goldman said Biden was “sharper than anyone he’d spoken to” and that he has “a photographic memory.” Representative Eric Swalwell said that Biden “put many of us to shame with his energy.” I mean, there are example after example, after example, of leading Democrats and noteworthy Democrats on the Hill, who have not been in the dark about this. They’ve been saying things I think most of them understand is simply not true. And they’ve misled the American people. And this is dangerous. ## |
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