Speech #1030005600

Chairman. anyone who has taken the time to read this bill knows that it is one of the most shamelessly slanted pieces of legislation that will come before this Congress. What my colleagues may not know are the lengths the bill goes to resurrect the glory days of machine politics and throw open the door to voter fraud. The bill contains everything: No purging of voter rolls. no meaningful checks on voter eligibility andmost egregiouslythe virtual certainty that illegal aliens will be registered to vote in Federal elections. Missing is only one thing: an accurate name for the bill. It should be called the Illegal Aliens Voting Rights Act of 1993. In fact. I am convinced that the bill waz named motorvoter with Zoe Bairds chauffeur in mind. This bill. as it is now written. will provide illegal aliens with Just one more means to cover their illegal status and thug act as an encouragement for illegal aliens to register. This bill actually facilitates the registration of noncitizens because it does not have the teeth to prevent illegal aliens from registering to vote. We must put protections into this bill and require certification that States are only registering citizens to vote. Drivers licenses are one of the forms of identification used by employers to verify citizenship status. Now with automatic voter registration in conjunction with obtaining a drivers license. illegal aliens can have an additional. though fraudulent. form for proof of citizenship. Custom officials allow a traveler returning across the border from Mexico to use a voter registration card. along with a drivers license. to substitute for a passport in providing American citizenship. With this bill. we will have made it even easier for illegal aliens to cross back and forth across U.S. borders without fear of being caught. H.R. 2 is not about ease of access. H.R. 2 is about ease of excess. By erecting a Tammany Hall in every town in America. this bill will throw open polling places to illegal aliens. If you want to give illegal aliens the right to vote. then vote for H.R. 2. the Illegal Aliens Voting Rights Act.