Cleta Mitchell
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Well, next week, the House of Representatives is going to hopefully have on the floor for the third time the SAVE Act plus voter ID.
So they're calling it the SAVE America Act.
It's going to have, as I said, the SAVE Act requiring documentary proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.
and then a voter ID requirement in order to vote.
And that will apply to both in-person voting and voting by mail.
And it will also require every state to submit its voter rolls to DHS to run against the same system at USCIS in order to identify any non-citizens who are on the voter rolls.
Now, let me tell you why this is important.
The House is going to attach that to a Senate bill and send it back to the Senate.
as a message.
And then, believe me, I don't pretend to know all these arcane Senate rules, but I'm trying to learn enough to be conversant.
And what we have to do, what all of us have to do, is that bill can then go straight to the Senate floor, and then we need to make John Thune
Make the Democrats come to the floor, not just assume a filibuster, but to have the talking filibuster.
Make them come, make them work, make them speak.
Every senator who opposes the bill, every Democrat who opposes this bill, the Save America Act,
should be forced to come to the floor and talk as to why they oppose voter ID, why they oppose documentary proof of citizenship.
Those are both 90% issues.
And when that time expires, if they will make them go through the talking filibuster when that time expires, it can be passed on a simple majority.
And we already have 51 Republican senators pledged to support the SAVE Act.
So this is our chance.
If we make John Boone, make the Democrats talk.