Mike Lee: “Over 170 countries across the world have some form of…”

Name: Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill
Uploaded: 2026-03-19T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Description: Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill

“The original SAVE act was this realization of a confluence of events and changes in law and the interpretation of law over the last 33 years…”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 28:34-28:55

“Existing federal law attaches grave criminal penalties, serious consequences for anyone who is not a citizen who votes in a federal…”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 00:24-00:34

“A small handful of states have allowed non-citizens to vote, typically in local elections.”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 00:43-00:52

“They [states] have also been unwilling to explain how, whether to what extent, in what ways they separated out those voter registration…”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 01:20-25:58

“The states that allow this, that are doing that, are conspicuously among the states not participating in memoranda of understanding based…”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 01:38-01:55

“The Save America act would repair our election security by requiring proof of citizenship to register and a photo ID to vote.”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 02:14-02:24

“A policy choice that enjoys the support of roughly 80% of the American people.”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 03:46-03:53

“Republicans overwhelmingly support this, 95% of Republicans, roughly 83% of Americans generally, and 71% of Democrats.”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 04:14-04:27

“Congressional Democrats have by and large focused on arguments that are a combination of being ill-founded, relying on blatant…”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 05:55-06:21

“Showing ID and proof of citizenship is something that Americans have to do every single day.”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 08:28-08:36

“To get a job, to start a job, to board a plane, to open a bank account, to enroll in school, to shovel snow in New York City, to get…”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 08:35-09:03

“If they want to call this Jim Crow 2.0, then so too is the Democratic Party.”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 09:03-09:08

“In the states that have started reviewing the voter registration files, thousands of voter registration files [have been] identified.”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 24:49-25:07

“States that are run by Democrats are not only not doing their own review, they're refusing even to share their voter registration files with…”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 25:14-25:29

“Some local elections openly allow noncitizens to vote.”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 25:34-25:40

“The Supreme Court's ruling in Arizona versus Intertribal Council of Arizona where they said that if you are dealing with an NVRA supplied…”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 28:55-29:18

“Obviously, we're still very much wanting to get DHS funded.”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 29:52-29:56

“With legislation that is this popular and people from both parties, among every demographic, among regionally, racially, racially party…”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 30:16-30:30

“In the case of the Civil Rights act of 1964, not the same bill, different context. I don't mean to overdo the comparison. They stayed that…”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 30:30-30:38

“They were able to close a 32 vote cloture deficit. We can do that with a much simpler bill, a more popular bill that has a mere 10 vote…”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 31:23-31:31

“That's exactly what Senator Lee has done with the same America Act.”

Mike Lee Gives Remarks On SAVE America Act As Senate Weighs Election Reform Bill | Uploaded March 19, 2026 | 31:25-31:31

Mike Lee: “Over 170 countries across the world have some form of voter…”