Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., has threatened to shut down the House floor next month if the Senate won’t take up a bill that would require proof of citizenship before registering to vote in federal elections.
And with the midterms on the horizon, House Administration Chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., this week unveiled a sprawling proposal that checks off several other items on his election integrity wish list.
“Americans should be confident their elections are being run with integrity — including commonsense voter ID requirements, clean voter rolls, and citizenship verification,” Steil said in a statement.
It comes after Steil helmed a similar effort in the 118th Congress, describing it as “the most conservative election bill to be seriously considered in the House in the generation.” This time the Wisconsin Republican is tying his push even more explicitly to President Donald Trump’s agenda, dubbing it the Make Elections Great Again Act.
Democrats have largely dismissed the GOP’s focus on election integrity as an attempt to suppress turnout and satisfy Trump, pointing to his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
“This bill is their latest attempt to block millions of Americans from exercising their right to vote,” House Administration ranking member Joseph D. Morelle, D-N.Y., said in a statement
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