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Official title: A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a program of research, training, and investigation related to Down syndrome, and for other purposes.
SenateSenate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.
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Library of CongressIntroduced in Senate
SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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What Congress Said
Members who spoke about this bill on the floor, in their own words from the Congressional Record.
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Reserving the right to object, I do thank my colleague for coming to the floor to be able to talk about this today. He and I are both on airplanes a lot.
Yesterday, Democrats unleashed a coordinated barrage of lies about this amendment, this amendment that I have, the substitute amendment, the SAVE America Act. President Trump has talked about it, wildly supported.
Again, you don't have to take my word for it. Sixty-two percent of Americans support requiring proof of citizenship to vote. The SAVE America Act will ensure that every voter in our elections is an American citizen.
The Senate, obviously, is currently debating the SAVE America Act. I am grateful to our colleague from Utah Senator Lee for introducing this legislation and to Senator Thune for bringing it up to the floor for debate and vote.
I thank Senator Cornyn for his strong remarks in support of honest elections. I come to the floor for a different reason. But in support of what Senator Cornyn said, I want people to know that I have spoken on this issue already and I am not going to speak again, but I support and am a cosponsor of the SAVE America Act.
Right now, as I stand here, the American people have been very clear with us--with all of us--not just with those of us on the Republican side in this room but all of us--the Independents, the Democrats. They have been clear.
You are entitled to your opinion. This is a free country. Whether you like President Trump or not is up to you. Your view of the war is up to you. But you are not entitled to your facts. You are entitled to the facts. And here are the facts. To my Democratic colleagues, I challenge you today to prove that I am wrong.
But we are going to actually--we have got this bill on the floor. We are going to be debating it. The way the Senate debates things is we offer amendments. Republicans are going to be offering amendments to add to it things, again, the American people support with 60, 70, 80 percent majorities.
As the Presiding Officer knows, one of the privileges of being a Senator is the opportunity to work alongside dedicated, talented staff. They take the Senator's ideas and concepts and turn them into real legislation that improves the lives of our constituents and improves our
With such a groundswell of support from the American people, it makes me wonder why my colleagues on the other side of the aisle don't support voter ID. You must ask yourself: Who are they representing? They can't be representing their constituents.
I will note that our friends across the aisle wanted a unanimous consent just to pass pay for TSA workers. I think it is imperative that we remind the body and also remind our citizens that this is one of their ploys.
So I would be remiss if I did not salute the University of Maine for its excellent work on tick-borne illnesses. This legislation is going to make a big difference in helping to advance their work, as well as the research at the MaineHealth research institute.
So what is this really about? Well, it is about Trump's obsession with a Federal takeover of our elections. That is not my word; that is his. He said he wanted to ``takeover'' our elections. And they do-- Donald Trump does--want to make it particularly hard for voters who they think will vote against them.
If this bill passes, then in 45 of the 50 States, your driver's license won't count as a valid ID. And then it gets better. Let's say you are a married woman who lives in Massachusetts. Let's say that when you got married, you took your husband's name.
The Senate has a solemn responsibility to assert itself along the constitutional mandate in matters of war and peace. This is why I urge my colleagues soon to support the motion to discharge S.J. Res. 118. I ask for that because of what is at stake: billions of American taxpayer dollars, hundreds of American lives.
I rise today as a child of the Civil Rights Movement, as the blessed beneficiary of its bold moral witness in America, and as a member of only the second generation of our Nation to have full and fair access to the right to vote.
But what have MAGA Republicans chosen to focus on this week? Voter suppression. That is what the Republican Senate is wasting our time on, pushing a voter suppression bill that most Americans do not support--a bill that appeals to only the most fringe element of the MAGA base.
I was speaking then in support of the John Lewis For the People Act. Along with my Democratic colleagues, I was pushing to expand Americans' right to vote and push back against the influence of dark money in our elections.
I came to the floor this afternoon in opposition to the SAVE Act. And I must admit, listening to some of the proponents of the act talk, it doesn't sound to me like they are talking about the same piece of legislation that I understand we are going to be voting on. But I will get to that in a minute.
A few years ago, I met a young woman who lives in the Chicago suburbs. She told me a story of her college career and what it led to. It was something I had never heard before.
The Republican majority, representing the views of the President here on the floor of the Senate, are trying to engage not in a save-democracy but a steal-democracy movement. That is what this entire debate is about.
But if he concluded otherwise, I suspect he would have leveled with the American people about the purpose, the goals, the risks, and sought to rally us to the cause.
I am humbled to follow my colleague from Illinois. No one is more articulate on the question of the cost of war than Senator Duckworth, and I agree with everything that she said about the importance of this moment.
So I am here today to support the Senator from New Jersey's War Powers Resolution that would reassert the American people's constitutional say over decisions of war and peace through their elected representatives and put an end to this unjustified, illegal war.
I rise today on behalf of the majority of Americans who oppose President Trump's war in Iran. I also rise on behalf of the families who just want him to fulfill his promises to lower costs and end foreign wars. Sadly, that is not what we are getting.
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