Veterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act of 2025

Floor Speech

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Ms. TENNEY. Mr. Speaker, I want to first address a comment by the ranking member, Mr. Morelle. We both hail from New York. He is a dear friend, but I just want to point out something.

New York City Democrats actually put up a bill to allow noncitizens to vote in their elections. Our far-left leaning--and I think you can argue that very easily--Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, actually turned that down and said: No, only citizens can vote in our elections. That is New York State law, and that is our national law.

I just want to make sure that that was your response to Mr. Burchett to make sure you understood that we have addressed this in New York, and we have established that only citizens can vote. We want to make sure we secure the ballot and know that citizenship in this country has value.

There is nothing more profound or important for the preservation of our constitutional Republic and to keep the power in ``we the people'' than the sacred right to vote.

Democrats have continuously undermined election integrity, sowing the seeds of mistrust with mail-in ballots, failing to provide ID, not proving that there is, indeed, one citizen, one vote.

This bill merely requires that you prove that you are a citizen and that we secure the ballot by knowing that there is one citizen, one vote.

As the cofounder and the chair of the Election Integrity Caucus, I would love to see every legal citizen vote in every election. I know I have as a proud American citizen.

Consider this situation: If you discovered that you had won the lottery, only to find out that a cartel member had perfectly replicated your winning lottery ticket and it was worth, let's just say, $200 million, maybe even $50 million, and you went to go turn in your ticket, but somebody else without a valid ID stole your identity and took your money, you would probably argue that we should have a valid voter ID.

I only wish that Americans would value their right to vote, as simple as it is, and to recognize that important act of voting as important to preserving our country, our Republic, and keeping power, again, in ``we the people.''

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Ms. TENNEY. Mr. Speaker, a secure valid ID system is the only way to ensure one citizen/one vote.

I urge all of my colleagues to join the Election Integrity Caucus and stand for election integrity and make sure that every citizen eligible to vote votes in every election.

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