Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters Act, 2025

Floor Speech

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Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, go to any community anywhere in this country and walk up to someone on the street and say: Do you think it makes sense--in light of the fact that 10 million migrants have come into the country in 3\1/ 2\ years and 99 of those individuals are on the terrorist watch list-- do you think it makes sense before a new voter registers to vote that they demonstrate they are a citizen of this great country?

Any person you ask that question to will say: Well, of course, of course that makes sense.

Every Democrat and Republican district will all say the same thing. Everyone will agree with that except Democrats in the United States House of Representatives. They disagree with that.

They say: No, no, no. We can't have that requirement on a bill that spends what we are already spending. We can't put that requirement on a bill.

That is ridiculous.

As Sarah Huckabee Sanders said a couple of years ago in response to the state of the Union, the divide in America today is normal versus crazy.

It is a crazy policy position not to agree with that, not to put the SAVE Act on this bill.

Think of the positions the left now takes. It is crazy to defund the police, it is crazy not to have a border, and it is crazy to say that men can compete against women in sports. Those are all positions that the left takes, and they take the position that in light of the 10 million people coming into our country in 3\1/2\ years you shouldn't have a requirement to demonstrate you are a citizen before you register as a new voter.

The people see this. The people understand in this country that this is crazy.

Support this legislation. This is a good bill with a commonsense, normal policy that we are putting in the legislation that makes absolute sense. Nonetheless, they are going to vote against it.

Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``yes'' vote.

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