Chapter 1: What is the significance of the SAVE Act in the Senate?
one of those moments. What is before us today is a test. A test of whether the Senate still understands what it's for. A test of whether Article I of the Constitution still means what it says, that Congress possesses the power to write the rules of the road.
A test of whether this body still exists to defend the American people, strengthen the Republic, and use constitutional authority for the common good. That is why I rise in support of my substitute amendment to the Save America Act. And it comes before us at a fitting hour in our nation's life. America is approaching her 250th birthday.
We're taught in schools to think of the American founding as though we're unimaginably far away, sealed off behind glass. But 250 years is smaller than it seems. President John Tyler was born during the first Congress in 1790. He was born in the very infancy of this republic. President Tyler's last living grandson died only last year.
That is how near the founding still is and how recent this great experiment in self-government remains. And if the founding is that near, then our duty is that much clearer. We're not the curators of a dead tradition. We are the stewards of a living republic. Our republic was founded on a daring claim that free people could govern itself. Not that a free people could drift forever.
Not that a free people could live off inherited greatness while its leaders refuse every hard question. Not that a free people could dissolve every boundary, mock every limit, and still expect to remain free. No, the American founding rested on a harder truth. Liberty is fragile, and so it requires structure. Man has fallen, and so self-government requires virtue.
A republic requires citizens, truth, and the courage to defend both. That's why this bill matters. Some may say this bill will say these titles. Some will say that this bill and all of its titles don't belong together. That five-pronged, three-titled amendment is just a package or a wish list or a collection of unrelated priorities.
But that only proves they do not understand what time it is, and they don't understand what our republic is. The five-pronged and three titles of this amendment are united by one central question. Will American law still defend the basic conditions of self-government? Title I, Save American Voter, says the franchise belongs to its citizens and voting should be secure.
Title II, Save American Sports, says that women's sports exist for women and girls, acknowledging biological reality over illegal fiction imposed by elite ideology. Title III, Save American Children, says that children should be protected from irreversible harm, not handed over to the appetites, fashions, and confusions of the age. citizenship, reality, responsibility.
Those are the basic truths a nation must defend if it intends to remain a nation. Let me begin with Title I. A republic has the right to distinguish citizens from non-citizens. That should not be controversial. That should not even be difficult. The vote is not a global entitlement. The vote is not a participation trophy for anyone who happens to cross our borders.
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Chapter 2: How does the SAVE Act aim to protect voting rights?
Because voting is not a consumer transaction. The highest values in election administration should be on legitimacy, public confidence, and trust. Not so long ago, even Democrats shared these values. The Carter Baker Commission, formed by former Democrat President Jimmy Carter and former Republican Secretary of State James Baker III, made many of the recommendations that my amendment promotes.
Voter ID, proof of citizenship, and limiting mail-in balloting. Democrat senators may not support these provisions, but their voters do. 71% of self-identified Democrats support voter ID. A free people should want its elections to be visible, accountable, and resistant to bad actors. That is what Title I is trying to restore. Not the denial of lawful voting, but the integrity of lawful voting.
Not confusion, but confidence. Not looseness, but legitimacy. I know this issue because I've experienced these fights myself. When I served as Missouri's Attorney General, I fought in court and defended our state's election integrity laws against a coordinated assault from the left in 2020. The left's dark money funded election super lawyers, did not merely challenge one rule here or there.
They challenged the very idea that we can get serious rules to protect the ballot, deter fraud, preserve order, and sustain public confidence in the vote. They came for the safeguards that made elections credible. They came for the principle that absentee and mail voting must be governed by rules.
They came for the simple proposition that the people are entitled not only to cast a ballot, but to trust the system by which ballots are cast, handled, counted, and certified. and Missouri won. We defended the truth that election law is the framework by which free people govern itself. Election law isn't the arcane inconvenience to be brushed aside whenever the left sees a tactical advantage.
We defended the proposition that deadlines matter. because finality matters. We defended ballot security because legitimacy matters. We defended verification requirements because public trust matters. We defended the authority of the people acting through their laws to insist that elections be honest, orderly, and worthy of confidence. And Missouri won.
That fight has taught me something I've never forgotten. The fight over election integrity is about more than mechanics or procedure. Rather, it's about whether we still have the moral confidence to defend the elementary conditions of self-government.
Because once every safeguard is treated as suspect, once every verification measure is denounced as oppression, once every effort to secure the ballot is caricatured as hostility to democracy, what is really under attack is the public's faith that elections are fair, lawful, and real.
So when I speak today about voter ID, proof of citizenship, and limits on mass mail voting, I do so from experience. I've fought these battles before. I've seen the pressure campaign to dissolve the rules that protect the vote. I've seen how quickly common sense is denounced when it stands in the way of ideological ambition.
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Chapter 3: What are the main components of Title I of the SAVE Act?
Irreversible medical interventions on minors for ideological ends are one of those lines. A child in distress needs guidance, protection, patience, love, stability, truth. A child in distress does not need a civilization so morally exhausted that it answers confusion with scalpels, sterilization, in permanent medicalization.
The burden of uncertainty should favor preserving the child, not fundamentally remaking the child. Too often our ruling class have preferred euphemism to honesty here. We're told this is compassion. We're told this is care. We're told that the enlightened position is to ratify distress with irreversible harm. It is not compassion to mutilate what cannot be restored.
It is not compassion to medicalize what may pass. It is not compassion to turn children into lifelong patients before they're old enough to understand what is being taken from them permanently. That is not mercy. It is cruelty masked in liberation. A republic worthy of the name protects children from adult passions, from ideological capture, and from the fashionable madness of the age.
That is what Title II is trying to do. And that's why these three titles belong together. Because this amendment is more than a list of 80-20 issues that the American people are demanding. The Save America Act is the defense of the elementary truths on which Republican life, small r, still depends. America belongs to its citizens. Men and women are real.
Children should be protected from permanent harm. If a nation will not defend these truths, it will not defend truth for very long. If a nation will not defend these boundaries, it will not keep any boundary for long. And that brings me to this chamber itself. Americans still love Mr. Smith goes to Washington for a reason.
They love it because they still wanna believe something about this institution. They wanna believe that the Senate, a uniquely American invention, can be used for the common good. They still wanna believe that conviction can defeat cynicism. They wanna believe that a man can come here and fight for his country rather than merely manage its decline.
Well, here's our chance to prove that hope is not foolish. The Senate is not a museum. It is not a visiting angels retirement village for proceduralism. It is not here merely to confirm nominees, pass omnibuses, and fund the legislative achievements of long dead men while the living nation loses confidence in its own government.
The United States Senate is here to legislate in defense of the American people. The Senate is here to draw lines. The Senate is here to make judgments. The Senate is here to govern. So the question for this chamber is really simple. Are we here to govern? or merely preside? Are we here to act for the people or simply explain why action is impossible?
Are we here to use power rightly or merely to congratulate ourselves for the restraint while the country pays the price? Because the stakes here are playing. We see distrust in elections. We see the collapse of more clarity. We're seeing girls told to accept injustices as progress. We're seeing children offered up to the altar of extreme ideology.
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Chapter 4: How does Title II address women's sports and gender identity?
Pass this bill to defend women and girls. Pass this bill to protect kids. Pass this bill to show the American people that we can still act in the defense of the American people. Pass this bill because these are common sense reforms. Pass this bill because Americans are tired of being told that their most basic moral instincts are somehow beyond the pale.
Pass this bill because a nation serious about the future doesn't apologize for governing itself. Pass this bill because America at 250 should be more than some commemoration. It should be a renewal. The age of excuses should end. The era of drift should end. The Senate should act. And the Save America Act should pass. Mr. President, yield the floor. Schmitt from Missouri, fantastic speech.
They're going to continue. They did five in the first hour. Senator Schmitt was first in the second hour. I'm going to slip Mike Davis in here. I've got Cleta Mitchell also on deck. Mike Davis, walk us through. Tell the audience, describe what's happening right now.
This is historic, and I want to commend senators like Senator Eric Schmitt from Missouri, Senator Mike Lee from Utah, many other good Republican senators. even Mitch McConnell, who joined his colleagues to vote to proceed. They voted to get past that first Senate procedure to begin debates on the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act ensures, will ensure that non-citizens are not voting in our elections.
It requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. It helps keep our voting rules claim to make sure that non-citizens are not on our voting rolls. It requires voter ID. These are measures that have support with over 80 percent of Americans, including a supermajority of Democrats and even a supermajority of minorities. These Democrat
senators are pretending that this is somehow sexist and racist to require voter ID, like married women somehow can't get a voter ID because their name has changed, or that Black Americans don't have the wherewithal to get a voter ID like all other Americans. Well, if that's the case, why do a supermajority of Black Americans support voter ID? Why do they support
The SAVE Act, it's very clear what the Democrats are doing here. They want to make it easier for illegal immigrants to illegally vote and rig and steal our elections. And the SAVE Act will help prevent that. This is within Congress's power under the Elections Clause of the Constitution. Congress can set the rules for federal elections along with the states.
And so this is clearly within Congress's power. There is no excuse not to pass the SAVE Act when it has overwhelming bipartisan support among Americans. There's no excuse for this. And so the Democrats think that they're going to try to stop this with what they call the silence filibuster, meaning you have to have 60 votes in the Senate. To end debates and vote on bills.
And I call that the lazy filibuster, because if you just threaten a filibuster in the Senate, it usually makes these senators say, OK, we don't have the courage, we don't have the energy to fight this, so we're going to move on.
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Chapter 5: What protections does Title III offer for children?
I mean, the Democrats.
what we've done here is called seize the floor we're on this bill in a very non-traditional way but we have to continue to drive this until they wear out correct i mean this is this is not about political nuance right now this is pure political muscle of who can stand here because as soon as they fade for any reason we can bring it to an immediate vote and we already know murkowski said she's a no tillis didn't even show up for the rule
So we're at 51 votes right now, but that would pass it. Is this just a display and good old fashioned political hardball? We need to make sure that Senate Republicans keep their backbones here. This is the most crucial piece of legislation. Remember what Senate Democrats are doing. They are filibustering a bill that.
with 80% plus support among Americans, including a super majority of Democrats and a super majority of minorities. If we can't get the SAVE Act passed in the Senate, if Senator John Thune cannot get the SAVE Act passed in the Senate, he may need to find a different line of work.
If you can't pass legislation with 80% support, including a super majority of Democrats and a super majority of minorities, You're not doing your job. So force these Democrats to get up there and argue like this. Patty Murray has just done with Washington from Washington that married women can't figure out how to change their voter ID so they can vote like they're too stupid.
You know, maybe they're just pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen and they don't know how to get to the DMV and change their ID like every other woman in America or like the Democrats try to argue that black Americans don't have the wherewithal to get a voter ID like everyone else, even though a super majority of black voters support voter ID. These are crazy arguments by these Democrats.
Let them make them, wear them out, and then get this to President Trump's desk with 51 votes, 52 votes, 50 votes, who cares? We'll bring in the vice president to break the tie, but this SAVE Act must pass.
Mike, before I let you go, and thank you for doing this, whenever I go to Article 3, you know, we've been the leader in pushing the Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard and, you know, Pete Hex, all of them, their confirmations. Mike, you're a man of the Senate.
You worked for Grassley forever, and then you were the lead sled dog on getting these very tough confirmations of Supreme Court justice done in the first term. How big a deal is this institutionally for the United States Senate right now? Well, it's massive because generally, if you just threaten a filibuster, then the majority caves, they say, we don't have 60 boats. We don't have the time.
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Chapter 6: Why is voter ID considered essential by proponents of the SAVE Act?
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and stand up for the fundamental right to vote. That always used to be bipartisan.
And the idea that you're gonna make all these people re-register or register with a expensive passport or birth certificate, that they can no longer use their driver's license, that their private voter data is sent to Homeland Security to go through some Elon Musk-designed computer system is not what people want in this country right now. Thank you, Mr. President. I yield the floor.
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Chapter 7: What challenges does the SAVE Act face in the Senate?
Keep making those phone calls. It's now time to listen to the Democrats and listen to what they say. And just listening to Amy Klobuchar, it reminds me of something, Steve. I was the lawyer, the national lawyer for the term limits movement for term limits for members of Congress.
And I'll never forget in 1991 in Washington State, home of Patty Murray, there was a referendum on term limits for members of Congress on the ballot in Washington State. The polling showed that 90% of the people, Republicans, Democrats, et cetera, supported term limits. So do you know what the Democrats did?
They changed the subject and said, if there were term limits, you're going to lose your Social Security. And that is what they're doing right now when they're talking about the Save America Act, when they're talking about women won't be able to vote. I'm listening to Amy Klobuchar. She has clearly not read the bill. Nobody has to go re-register. They're not going to re-register. Hang on.
Hang on for one second. Andy Kim in New Jersey is up there now. So this is three Democrats in a row. At first, I think they were a little hesitant and kind of rope-a-dove. And now they're fully engaged. I think we're going to have a quite interesting evening. Remember, you've got to go nonstop. As soon as you get off, I think, yes. This is called seizing the floor.
John Solomon broke today, and Glenn Beck did an amazing couple of minutes on it. I'll try to play that in the 6 o'clock hour. Today, with everything going on in Georgiaā With everything going on in Maricopa County, just the first two of what of what Solomon's told us is five entities. OK, with a big election fraud issues, Fulton County, Maricopa County, and now huge fights.
They're in court fighting us. You know, the mediation in Georgia breaking news has has ended. DOJ took a tough stance. Now we're going to be back into two lawsuits about this. But they don't want to get the hands of the ballot. Solomon comes out today and Glenn Beck did a perfect thing on April 20 and April 2020.
the Chinese Communist Party came in and intruded, not into ballots, but into voter information at the beginning of the pandemic, knowing that mail-in ballots were going to become a big deal, right? They did it. How can these Democrats sit here, and they're using every excuse in the world, you don't have a passport, you don't have this.
I mean, if Patty Murray and Amy Klobuchar are the best that they've got to start this thing off, I think the American people are going to get a real education over the couple of days, particularly when Solomon tells us there's more information coming out about the Chinese Communist Party, active involvement in voter rolls and voter information, Social Security numbers, all of it, ma'am.
It's absolutely true, Steve. I mean, why do you think they have not wanted us to talk about this for five years? Why do you think they have gaslighted us for five years? Why do you think they have called us names for five years? Election deniers, cost people their jobs, cost people their law firm partnerships like me, like people that work with me in Georgia and all across the country.
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Chapter 8: How does the SAVE Act reflect broader political trends in America?
He had 16 Democrats who co-sponsored it. I went and looked it up a few months ago and said, I like this bill. I want to put it in the Save America Act. Let's put it in there so that we can protect all the things that we talk about the Democrats used to worry about. So Amy Klobuchar is right. Voting used to be, and voting support and election integrity, that used to be bipartisan. Not anymore.
The Democrats want to get rid of everything. What Eric Smith said was exactly right. They want to get rid of any safeguard whatsoever. And just because the law says you can't rob a bank doesn't mean that banks sit around and don't put bars on the windows and put the money in the vault at night. And that's exactly the situation the Democrats have done to our elections. And we have to undo it.
And we have to listen to them. And we need the Republicans to keep this bill on the floor for two to three weeks in time for the Americans' attention to focus on it's the Democrats. They're the ones that should be scaring everybody by the stupid lies they're telling. Well, if to do that, I believe they're going to have to stay up there totally. So we're going to see that.
By the way, the number for the Republicans are a number for the Senate. Excuse me. Two zero two two two four three one two one. And make sure if one of if you're both your senators and one of them a Democrat call. Give them the old what for about supporting this bill. Call them and let's use some positive reinforcement to the to the Republicans. You've got to stick with this.
We already know Murkowski said she's a no. And Tom Tillis didn't even show up for, I think, the rules vote. So he's signaling to you he's a no. He's told people he's a no. I'm just glad he didn't show up. But we need to work on him from North Carolina. But he's not running again. Lisa Murkowski has gotten the election laws rewritten in Alaska.
The only way she can win is by manipulating the process. But... But you know what, people? Ranked choice voting, repealing ranked choice voting, which is what she helped put in that got her reelected last time. It's going to be on the ballot again to repeal it. And man, if we can get rid of ranked choice voting in Alaska, we can get rid of Lisa Murkowski.
If you remember when you keep hearing all these people run around, this is MAGA, that's not MAGA. This is your MAGA, you're not MAGA. One of the central tenants of MAGA, I can tell you, being here from the very beginning and particularly in the firestorm of 2020, 2021, 2022,
is election integrity, some of the hardest, toughest people we have who've stood in the breach over the last several years, risking jail, bankruptcy, throwing out of their law firms, throwing out of their companies, having their families disown them, have been the patriots that have stood in there for voter integrity.
And right now, folks, you've got to understand, we have a massive national debate taking place on the Senate floor On this very issue of of stealing elections and particularly stealing the 2020 election and how we're going to get around it. We've also got explosive news coming out of now the intelligence agencies. They can't hold back anymore.
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