Florida Congressman Greg Steube (R) was featured in an interview on the Benny Show, where he called upon the Senate to break the filibuster that is halting the SAVE Act (H.R.22) from passing as a law.
“The only way this passes the Senate is if it does away with the filibuster. I've been calling on him to do away with the filibuster since before the shutdown, and they absolutely refused to do it,” Rep. Steube said.
The SAVE Act is a bill that, if passed, would require voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. The bill prohibits states from accepting and processing a voter registration form unless the applicant is able to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.
The bill requires that applicants present an ID that complies with the REAL ID Act of 2005, which indicates U.S. citizenship.
The Congressman is adamant that the bill must pass to reassure voters that federal elections are legitimate and that votes are cast by U.S. citizens.
“The Save Act’s going to die if they don't act, and you're not going to have voter ID, you're not going to have the things that we have to have, and you're going to continue to have fraud in our elections because of that,” he continued.
Steube believes that if the bill doesn’t pass, voters are going to become wary and untrusting of federal elections and, in turn, refuse to vote.
“We're going to ask voters to show up in the midterms when they're like, why should we send you guys back and have the House and the Senate when you can't even ensure that our elections that we are voting in are sound,” he questioned.
Another Florida politician, Senator Rick Scott (R), also chimed in with his thoughts on the bill, stating that “We don’t get to vote in another country. Why are people from another country getting to vote in our country?”
Scott calls the SAVE Act a “common sense” law.
