Thank you, Madam Speaker. My constitutional oath is sacred. and i have a duty to speak out about confirmed, evidence-filled issues with the administration of the 2020 presidential election in certain battleground states, signature verification, valid observation, voter roll integrity, voter I.D. requirements, and ballot collection protections were weakened, on top of the millions of mailboxes that were flooded with unrequested mail-in ballots.
Many of my constituents have been outraged, and demanding that I voice their objections here today. This debate is necessary. because rogue election officials circumvented state election laws. they made massive changes to how their state's election would be run. These acts, among other issues, were unlawful and unconstitutional. Congress has the duty to defend the constitution and any powers of state legislatures that were usurped. Some claim today's objections set new precedent by challenging state electors. That claim, of course, ignores that Democrats have objected every time a Republican presidential candidate has won an election over the past generation. if you don't have any objections today, that's your call, but don't lecture about precedent. Over the past four years, Democrats boycotted Trump's inauguration and state of the union addresses, pushed the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracies and investigations and knowingly lied about it, voted to impeach the president before even knowing what to impeach him for, and then actually passed articles of impeachment before senate Democrats voted to remove him from office.
Today's debate is necessary, especially because of the insistence that everything President Trump and his supporters say about the 2020 election is evidence-free. That's simply not true. no one can honestly claim it's evidence-free, when in Arizona courts unilaterally extended the legislatively set deadline to register to vote. The Arizona State Senate issued subpoenas, post-election, to get information from the Maricopa County board on various election matters. but the board and the courts refused to help at all, to let the state senate complete its constitutional duties. in Pennsylvania, where state legislatures wrote us about their powers being usurped, the Democrat majority on the state supreme court changed signature-matching and postal-marking requirements. The date to submit mail-in ballots was extended, contradictory to the dates set by state law. The issue is magnified if the voter rolls be so inaccurate . . . [UNCLEAR] absentee ballots by the Democrat secretary of the commonwealth . . ballots were counted and poll watches were denied. In Georgia, the secretary of state entered into an agreement with the Democratic party changing requirements. Challenging signatures was made far more difficult, and it required election officials to issue training materials retained by the Democratic Party. In Wisconsin, election officials assisted voters how to circumvent the signature laws and [UNCLEAR] putting in drop boxes. The democracy in the Park event in Wisconsin had over 17,000 ballots that were transferred.
These are all facts. and certainly not evidence-free. Americans deserve nothing less than full faith and confidence in their election. and guarantee that their vote, their voice, counts and if there are concerns are being heard, that's why we need to have this debate today, whether you like it or not. This isn't about us, this is about our Constitution, our election, and our people, and our Republic. I yield back.