Colossians 3:14
"If ever a time should come,
when vain and aspiring men
shall possess the highest seats in Government,
Our Country
will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Samuel Adams, October 24, 1780.
Place: Senate, USA Congress, 3/20/2026
CSPAN Senate debating The Save America Act
Debate ongoing: THE SAVE AMERICA ACT
87% AMERICAN APPROVAL
Eighty-Seven Percent Approval
SENATOR ERIC SCHMIDT, R, MISSOURI
THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT.
THERE ARE MOMENTS WHEN THE SENATE IS ASKED WHETHER IT WILL MERELY MANAGE DECLINE OR WHETHER IT WILL STILL GOVERN.
THIS IS 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 1 OF THE CONSTITUTION STILL MEANS WHAT IT SAYS, THAT CONGRESS POSSESSES THE POWER TO WRITE THE RULES OF THE ROAD.
A TEST EVER WHETHER THIS BODY STILL EXISTS
TO DEFEND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,
STRENGTHEN THE REPUBLIC,
AND USE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY FOR THE COMMON GOOD.
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 IT WERE INIMAGINABLY FAR AWAY, SEALED OFF BEHIND GLASS. BUT 250 YEARS IS SMALLER THAN IT SEEMS.
A 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 1, SAVE AMERICAN VOTER, SAYS THE FRANCHISE BELONGS TO ITS CITIZENS AND VOTING SHOULD BE SECURE.
THAT IS WHY REQUIRING PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP TO VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS IS FOUNDATIONAL,
IT IS A MINIMUM REQUIREMENT. IT IS SO COMMON SENSE IN A SELF-GOVERNING NATION, BECAUSE A PEOPLE WHO CANNOT SAY WHO BELONGS TO THE POLITY CANNOT REMAIN A POLITY AT ALL.
(POLITY the form of government, politically organized)
THE SAME IS TRUE FOR VOTER IDENTIFICATION.
WE'RE TOLD ENDLESSLY THAT ASKING A VOTER TO IDENTIFY HIMSELF BEFORE CASTING A BALLOT IS SOMEHOW OPPRESSIVE, UNREASONABLE, OR OUTSIDE THE BOUNDS OF DEMOCRATIC DECENCY. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNOW BETTER. THAT'S WHY OVER 80% OF AMERICAN VOTERS SUPPORT VOTER I.D. IDENTITY VERIFICATION IS ORDINARILY -- IS ORDINARY, I SHOULD SAY, IN EVERY SERIOUS SPHERE OF LIFE. WE REQUIRE IT FOR SMALL THINGS, FOR LESSER THINGS, FOR TRIVIAL THINGS.
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG
WITH REQUIRING
LAWFUL VOTERS
TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES
BEFORE
PARTICIPATING IN THE ELECTIONS
OF THOSE
WHO WILL GOVERN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
THIS BODY EXISTS TO DO MORE THAN SIMPLY FUND LEGISLATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS OF LONG-DEAD MEN.
THE LEGISLATIVE POWER EXISTS TO MAKE JUDGMENTS, DRAW LINES, AND DEFEND OUR COUNTRY.
THE SENATE SHOULD PROVE THAT IT STILL UNDERSTANDS THAT DUTY.SO PASS THIS BILL TO RESTORE INTEGRITY TO FEDERAL ELECTIONS.
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 COMMONSENSE 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 DOESN'T APOLOGIZE FOR GOVERNING ITSELF.
PASS THIS BILL BECAUSE AMERICA,
AT 250,
SHOULD BE MORE
THAN SOME COMMEMORATION.
THIS
SHOULD
BE
A
RENEWAL.
SENATOR RICK SCOTT, R, FLORIDA
Beloved Florida Governor Twice
MR. PRESIDENT, I RISE TODAY TO SPEAK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT UNIFIES OUR COUNTRY. HERE IN THE SENATE, OFTEN WE TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT WE DISAGREE ON. WE'RE GOING TO TALK TODAY ABOUT SOMETHING THAT AMERICANS AGREE ON. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OVERWHELMINGLY WANT ELECTION SECURITY. THEY WANT OUR BORDER TO BE SECURE, THEY WANT OUR ELECTION TO BE SECURE. THEY WANT TO FEEL THAT THEIR GOVERNMENT IS ACTING WITH INTEGRITY AND FAIRNESS. AND TO HAVE REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT THAT PROTECTS ITS PEOPLE. I RISE IN SUPPORT OF THE SAVE AMERICA ACT. FOR MANY OF US,
THIS IS A NEW FIGHT. MY GOOD FRIEND SENATOR LEE AND I HAVE BEEN WORKING TO PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT FOR YEARS. BECAUSE WE KNOW THIS ISN'T JUST ABOUT ELECTION SECURITY, IT'S ABOUT PROTECTING THE FUTURE OF OUR NATION FOR ALL AMERICAN FAMILIES.
THEY SUPPORT THESE IDEAS. AND WHY WOULDN'T THEY?
AMERICANS WANT TO KNOW THAT OUR ELECTIONS ARE BOTH FREE AND FAIR, THAT OUR DEMOCRACY IS SAFE. THEY BELIEVE IN OUR COUNTRY.
AND THAT CITIZENS CAN MAKE GOOD DECISIONS.
THEY WANT TO KNOW THAT THEIR VOTE COUNTS AND IS NOT DILUTED BY SOMEONE WHO IS NOT A U.S. CITIZENS. AMERICANS DESERVE THAT, BECAUSE THIS QUESTION CUTS TO THE VERY CORE OF WHO WE ARE AS A COUNTRY. TO SURVIVE, A REPUBLIC NEEDS ITS CITIZENS TO KNOW AND TRUST THAT THEIR VOTE IS SECURE. THAT THEIR VOTE MATTERS. AND THAT THEY CAN TRUST THE OUTCOME. PEOPLE HAVE DIED FOR THE SACRED RIGHT TO VOTE AND THAT SACRED RIGHT SHOULD NOT BE DILUTED BY NON-U.S. CITIZENS.
UNPACK THEIR ARGUMENTS.
YOU WILL HEAR THEM SAY THIS IS JIM CROW 2.0. THAT'S RIGHT. WE HAVE ONCE AGAIN REACHED THE POINT WHERE DEMOCRATS CLAIM THE THING THEY DON'T LIKE IS RACIST, IT'S WRONG, IT'S INSULTING, AND THE DEMOCRATS KNOW IT. EVERYONE KNOWS IT, BUT THEY HOPE THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WON'T NOTICE.
HERE'S WHY IT IS SO WRONG.
WHAT DEMOCRATS ARE REALLY SAYING IS THAT
THE 83% OF AMERICANS WHO SUPPORT VOTER I.D. LAWS ARE ALL RACIST.
LET'S REMEMBER, IT WAS DEMOCRATS WHO PASSED JIM CROW LAW, NOT REPUBLICANS. EVERYONE WHO IS PAYING ATTENTION CAN SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING. DEMOCRATS ARE OPENLY CALLING MOST OF AMERICANS RACIST
AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ACTS LIKE THAT IS NORMAL.
DEMOCRATS WANT TO ALLOW ILLEGALS TO VOTE
. I'M TIRED OF HEARING DEMOCRATS SAYING THEY ARE USING ILLEGALS TO VOTE IN OUR ELECTIONS. WE KNOW THAT THE DEMOCRATS CAN'T WIN ON RADICAL IDEAS SO THEY HAVE TO TRY TO WEAPONIZE OUR ELECTIONS. THAT'S WRONG.
THOSE WHO ARE CAPABLE TO SHOW AN I.D. CAN BOARD AN AIRPLANE AND SECURE CITIZENSHIP DESERVE FAIR ELECTIONS. WE ARE ONLY HERE BECAUSE DEMOCRATS CREATED A SYSTEM IN THIS COUNTRY THAT HAS TOTALLY FAILED.
DON'T LISTEN TO THEM.
IT'S NOT FAIR FOR ILLEGALS TO VOTE IN OUR ELECTIONS. IT'S NOT FAIR TO LET MEN COMPETE IN WOMEN'S SPORTS, IT'S NOT FAIR TO ALLOW THE MUTILATION OF CHILDREN, THE FACT IS THAT FAIRNESS, INTEGRITY, AND OUR FUTURE ARE ON THE LINE. IT'S THIS BILL THAT WILL PROTECT THEM. IT'S WHAT SENATOR LEE AND I AND SO MANY OTHERS ARE FIGHTING FOR TODAY AS WE CALL ON THIS BODY TO VOTE FOR THE SAVE AMERICA ACT. I URGE MY CLOSING TO SUPPORT IT.
SENATOR Pete Ricketts NEBRASKA GOD HELP US ALL
RICKETTS: MY HOME STATE OF NEBRASKA IS EXPERIENCING A NATURAL DISASTER OF UNPRECEDENTED PROPORTION FOR OUR STATE. WE ARE EXPERIENCING THE LARGEST WILDFIRES SINCE NEBRASKA BECAME A STATE. IT STARTED LAST WEEK. WE HAVE A NUMBER OF FIRES BURNING ACROSS THE STATE THAT HAVE
BURNED UP TO 750,000 ACRES OF NEBRASKA. THAT'S OVER 1%, APPROACHING 2% OF THE TOTAL LAND AREA OF MY STATE. WE HAVE HAD ONE FATALITY, ROSEMARY WYDEN, A GRANT MOTHER OF 12 DIED AT A RANCH NEAR ARTHUR, NEBRASKA.
WE'VE ALSO HAD HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IMPACTED BY THESE FIRES
I ASK ALL NEBRASKANS AND ALL AMERICANS TO PRAY FOR THE VICTIMS OF THIS TERRIBLE FIRE.
Abba, Father,
We pray for huge
RAIN
for NEBRASKA
and
YOUR MERCY
In Jesus Christ,
AMEN.
Senator MARSHA BLACKBURN TENNESEE R
PEOPLE WANT DHS FUNDED. THEY WANT THE SAVE AMERICA ACT PASSED. THEY WANT THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTIONS TO BE PROTECTED, AND I THINK IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE COME TOGETHER ON THIS FLOOR AND THAT WE PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT AND MAKE CERTAIN THAT WE KNOW WHO IS VOTING AND THAT THEY ARE A CITIZEN.
(Seriously SAVE AMERICA ACT, has spoken 3 days in a row. Godspeed.)
SENATOR Ted Cruz TEXAS
FOR NEARLY 250 YEARS AMERICANS HAVE CAST THEIR VOTES FOR LEADERS AT EVERY LEVEL, FROM LOCAL OFFICIALS TO STATE REPRESENTATIVES TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. EVERY MEMBER OF THIS BODY IS HERE TODAY BECAUSE WE WERE ELECTED, FAIRLY AND HONESTLY, AND GIVEN A MANDATE BY OUR CONSTITUENTS TO SERVE THEM HERE IN WASHINGTON AND TO PROTECT THE LIBERTIES AND FREEDOMS OUR FOUNDERS FOUGHT TO PRESERVE.
THE POWER OF THE BALLOT BOX DETERMINES THE COURSE OF OUR NATION.
BUT IT IS WORTH REMEMBERING THAT OUR VOTING SYSTEM DID NOT BEGIN AS IT EXISTS TODAY. WHEN THIS NATION WAS FOUNDED, THE RIGHT TO VOTE WAS LIMITED, AND OVER TIME, THROUGH DEBATE, SACRIFICE, A BLOODY CIVIL WAR AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, THE RIGHT TO VOTE WAS QUITE PROPERLY EXPANDED. THE 15TH AMENDMENT PROHIBITED DENYING THE VOTE BASED ON RACE. THE 19TH AMENDMENT GUARANTEED WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE. AND THE 26TH AMENDMENT LOWERED THE VOTING AGE TO 18. AT EVERY STAGE OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROCESS,
THE GOAL WAS THE SAME -- TO ENSURE THAT THE RIGHT TO VOTE BELONGED TO AMERICAN CITIZENS AND THAT IT WAS EXERCISED WITH INTEGRITY. AND WHILE OUR SYSTEM HAS EVOLVED, ONE PRINCIPLE HAS REMAINED CONSTANT -- ELECTIONS REFLECT THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. FOR A RIGHT SO SACRED, FOR A PRIVILEGE SO HARD-FOUGHT, IT IS SHOCKING, IT IS TRAGIC HOW NEGLECTED AND VULNERABLE THE PROTECTION OF OUR ELECTIONS HAS BECOME.
Amen
AMERICAN CITIZENS, ARE VOTING IN THEM. LEGITIMACY IN A DEMOCRACY RESTS ON TWO PILLARS. FIRST THE MECHANICAL INTEGRITY OF THE SYSTEM TO PRODUCE A VALID RESULT AND, SECOND, THE PUBLIC'S CONFIDENCE IN THAT SYSTEM. IF EITHER ONE FAILS, THE SYSTEM
FALTERS.
MR. PRESIDENT, OUR DEMOCRAT COLLEAGUES ARE FOND OF BELLOWING INTO THE TV CAMERAS THAT PHOTO I.D. TO VOTE IS JIM CROW. THEY TELL US WITH MOCK EARNESTNESS. NOW, I WILL ADMIT, OUR DEMOCRAT COLLEAGUES SHOULD BE EXPERTS IN JIM CROW, BECAUSE IT WAS DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS WHO PASSED THE JIM CROW LAWS. IT WAS DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS WHO FOUNDED THE KU KLUX KLAN. IT WAS DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS FOR DECADE AFTER DECADE WHO ENFORCED DISCRIMINATION, SEPARATE BUT EQUAL, POLL TAXES, AND A HOST OF OTHER LAWS DESIGNED TO PREVENT AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM VOTING.
BUT DO YOU KNOW WHO HAS REJECTED THEIR DISINGENUOUS CLAIM THAT PHOTO I.D. TO VOTE IS JIM CROW? THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.
THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,
AND WHEN YOU CLAIM MINORITIES CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET A DRIVER'S LICENSE,
WELL,
GOSH,
WHAT DO YOU NEED A PHOTO I.D. TO VOTE -- TO DO RIGHT NOW IN AMERICA? YOU NEED A PHOTO I.D. TO PURCHASE ALCOHOL. OR TO PURCHASE TOBACCO. YOU NEED A PHOTO I.D. TO GAMBLE OR PURCHASE LOTTERY TICKETS. YOU NEED A PHOTO I.D. TO GO INTO A BAR. YOU NEED A PHOTO I.D. TO GET ON A PLANE. YOU NEED A PHOTO I.D. TO REPRESENT A CAR. YOU NEED A PHOTO I.D. JUST TO DRIVE A CAR, NOT EVEN RENT A CAR, DRIVE A CAR. YOU NEED A PHOTO I.D. TO APPLY FOR GOVERNMENT BENEFITS. YOU NEED A PHOTO I.D. TO ENROLL IN COLLEGE. YOU NEED A PHOTO I.D. TO OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT. YOU NEED A PHOTO I.D. TO CHECK INTO A HOTEL. AND I GOT TO ADMIT, THIS IS MY PERSONAL FAVORITE -- YOU NEED A PHOTO I.D., ACTUALLY TWO PHOTO I.D.'S, TO SHOVEL SNOW IN NEW YORK CITY.
THESE ARE ROUTINE, EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES
JOE BIDEN CAN'T SECURE THE BORDER, HE NEEDS NEW LEGISLATION. WE NOW KNOW THAT WAS A LIE. IT WAS OBJECTIVELY FALSE. AND THEY KNEW IT WAS FALSE. WELL, IF THEY COULD HAVE SECURED THE BORDER FOR FOUR YEARS, AND THEY CHOSE NOT TO, THEY CHOSE TO LET MURDERERS INTO THIS COUNTRY, THEY CHOSE TO LET RAPISTS INTO THIS COUNTRY, THEY CHOSE TO LET CHILD MOLESTERS INTO THIS COUNTRY. THEY CHOSE TO LET GANG BANGERS INTO THIS COUNTRY, THEY CHOSE TO LET TERRORISTS INTO THIS COUNTRY.
WE'VE HAD FOUR RADICAL ISLAMIC TERROR ATTACKS IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS.
I WOULD NOTE, AS WE'RE ON THE FLOOR TODAY, OF THE 47 DEMOCRATS IN THIS BODY, ONLY ONE IS HERE ON THE FLOOR, BUT A WHOLE LOT MORE WERE ON THE FLOOR DURING THE STATE OF THE UNION AND EVERY ONE OF THEM CHOSE TO REMAIN SEATED, BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT SUPPORT THE STATEMENT THAT WE NEED TO SUPPORT AMERICAN CITIZENS AND NOT ILLEGAL ALIENS. THAT'S WHY THEY OPPOSE THE SAVE AMERICA ACT. BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE HANDED POWER OVER THIS COUNTRY BY THE ILLEGAL ALIENS THEY LET INTO THIS COUNTRY. THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO SAVE AMERICA. AND IT'S WHY I URGE EVERY MEMBER OF THIS BODY TO PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT.
Thank you, Senator Ted Cruz, TEXAS
Senator John Barrasso MD Wyoming
Illegals are given a driver's license and vote in
LISTEN TO THE DEMOCRATS TALK, THEY THINK IT'S FINE, LET ANY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT VOTE. WE HEARD FROM THE MINORITY LEADER YESTERDAY IN TERMS OF WHAT WE WANT DO DO IN TERMS OF THE RIGHTS OF THE AMERICAN CITIZENS THAT ELECTIONS ARE FREE AND FAIR, WHEN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS VOTE, THE VOICE OF THE AMERICAN CITIZENS IS UNDERMINED.
UNDER JOE BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS, OVER 10 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FLOODED INTO OUR COUNTRY. COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE STATE, AND NOW DEMOCRATS WANT TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO DECIDE THE OUTCOME OF ELECTIONS IN THIS NATION. DEMOCRATS ARE ONCE AGAIN PRIORITIZING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS OVER AMERICAN CITIZENS, AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING, THAT'S WHY WE'RE IN THE SITUATION WE ARE WITH THE SHUTDOWN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND
WHY SPECIFICALLY TODAY WE'RE ON THE FLOOR TO TALK ABOUT THE SAVE AMERICA ACT. MANY FAR-LEFT SANCTUARY CITIES ALREADY MAKE IT EASIER FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO VOTE. THEY SET IT UP THAT WAY BECAUSE IN
*********** 19 STATES AND THE ARE -- AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CAN GET A DRIVER'S LICENSE WITH NO PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP. I WAS -- I OPPOSED IT FROM THE BEGINNING AND NOW 19 STATES, IN CALIFORNIA, VERMONT, WASHINGTON, D.C.,
BY OPPOSING THIS BILL, MR. PRESIDENT,
DEMOCRATS ARE ONCE AGAIN PUTTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AHEAD OF AMERICAN VOTERS
AND REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY VOTER IN AMERICA
AND EVERY CITIZEN VOTER IN AMERICA
KNOWS WHICH SIDE OF THAT ISSUE PEOPLE STAND ON
-- PHOTO I.D. AND CITIZENSHIP OR NOT. THE REPUBLICANS ARE HERE TO SAY IT'S IMPORTANT THAT ONLY CITIZENS VOTE AND PEOPLE PROVE WHO THEY ARE BY SHOWING A PHOTO I.D. WHEN THEY GO TO THE BALLOT BOX.
THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT.
CSPAN
SENATE HEARING ON
SAVE AMERICA ACT
SATURDAY 12:00
Use subtitles when
D Senators get way off topic
and then
have something engaging
to do
and
glance up.
Thank You, Father,
for Jesus Christ the Messiah.
Lord of All.
Amen.
♔ Lord Jesus Saves †
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