A senior senator from Rhode island even went a step further in a way that pained me to hear. Because it's so absurd. He said, it's even something we should have to worry about, that Nothing in the legislation would allow [the Trump administration] to...cancel all the voter registration files in an entire state. This is nonsense. Not only is that absurd to think that they would do that, to think they could get away with it, it's, it's utterly at odds with the text of the legislation. (48:49)
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Asserts that the legislation does not allow the Trump administration to cancel voter registration files.
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