… added DMV from asking any driver's license applicant simultaneously registering to vote to also establish citizenship. That, Madam President, is a statutory conclusion, one that we are free to change. It is not a constitutional mandate. It is far from a constitutional mandate. Now, if that's what my friend and colleague, the distinguished junior Senator from Rhode island, meant to say, then he is just plain wrong. (36:35–36:41)
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Asserts that the prohibition on requiring proof of citizenship is not a constitutional mandate.
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