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Subcommittee chair says New Jersey voting findings could push Save America Act
Summary
A subcommittee chair said findings about voting in New Jersey could help advance the Save America Act and announced plans for a hearing in his oversight and judiciary subcommittee; the claims about noncitizen voting were presented as assertions, not proven facts.
A questioner asked whether recent reporting about voting in New Jersey might help push the Save America Act for President Trump. The subcommittee chair on oversight and judiciary said he hoped it would and described the developments as "ironic," adding that such evidence "shouldn't have been needed."
The subcommittee chair asserted that Democrats had previously dismissed concerns about noncitizen voting and said the New Jersey discoveries suggest a broader problem. He said the Department of Justice had been invited to investigate and added, "we're gonna leave no stone unturned." He announced plans to hold "a hearing just on this issue alone to try to propel, this bill, the Save Act." The remarks in the transcript are assertions by the chair; the transcript does not include supporting evidence or a formal adjudication of the underlying voting allegations.
The chair framed the legislation as seeking to ensure that "only American citizens vote in American elections," saying, "There is nobody in America of any party that should be against having only American citizens vote in American elections." The exchange in the transcript contains no vote, motion, or final Committee action on the bill; it records a stated intention to schedule a hearing and ongoing investigative activity by the Department of Justice.
