00:00A woman from New York is recognized for one minute.
00:03Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose the SAVE Act.
00:06Bottom line, the SAVE Act suppresses the votes of women, of black, brown, and indigenous people,
00:12of veterans, and working-class Americans.
00:15In advancing it, Republicans invoke those historical policies that were intended to
00:21disenfranchise Americans.
00:22Let me remind you what they were.
00:24Literacy tests and poll taxes for eligible voters.
00:28Grandfather clauses, which tied voters' right to their grandfathers before the Civil War.
00:33All white primaries to eliminate black voters' presence in the electoral process.
00:38And now the, show me your papers.
00:41The SAVE Act is the same trash, just a different day.
00:44It is the Republicans' latest attempt to make clear who they believe should have access to
00:48vote and who they think should not.
00:50Anyone who votes for this bill will go down in the history books with the likes of Confederate
00:56politicians, Jim Crow advocates, and white supremacists as bigots.
01:01I urge my colleagues to vote no.
01:04With that, I yield back.
01:05The gentleman from Illinois yields her time, the gentleman from New York.
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