On Tuesday, the Senate Rules Committee held a markup meeting on the #CorruptPoliticiansAct (S.1). Senators from both parties introduced amendments to the bill, which were then voted upon by the committee.
This led to some very telling votes. Here are some of the policies Senate Democrats voted to support:
- Voting Rights for Murderers: Dems rejected Senator Cruz’s (R-TX) amendment to keep murderers from voting.
- Overturn all state voter ID laws: Despite 77% of Americans agreeing that we should have voter ID requirements, Democrats voted to end them with S.1.
- One-party control of the FEC: Democrats voted against Leader McConnell’s (R-Ky.) amendment to maintain bipartisan control of the Federal Elections Commission (FEC). Instead of keeping the FEC at 6 people, with 3 Democrats and 3 Republicans, Dems voted to change it to 5 (giving the President’s party majority control). This would enable Joe Biden to weaponize the FEC to go after political opponents.
The Democrats showed their true colors in this markup meeting—they want a complete federal takeover of our election laws.
They are diametrically opposed to Heritage Action’s efforts at the state level to make it “easier to vote and harder to cheat.” In Iowa, Georgia, Arizona, Florida, and other states, grassroots conservatives have worked tirelessly to make elections free and fair for all.
But with S.1, Democrats have made it clear they want to undo all this hard work. They want a complete federal takeover of our elections that will make it “easier to cheat and harder to detect,” as Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) so eloquently put it.