House passes voter registration bill that would require proof of citizenship - Roll Call

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : This measure, the SAVE Act, will help make sure that is true."
57% : "House Republicans are determined to codify this commonsense idea with the SAVE Act.
56% : The media always does, the Democrats always do, but we get the job done," he said, referring to the budget resolution and other Republican wins this week, including the SAVE Act.
55% : Known as the SAVE Act, it would require people to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote.
51% : But that procedural drama was in the rearview mirror by Thursday, as Republicans celebrated passage of the election measure, on the same day they successfully pushed through a budget resolution meant to unlock the next steps toward other priorities of Trump's.
49% : If the SAVE Act becomes law, each state would create its own process for verifying citizenship during voter registration, after seeing guidance from the Election Assistance Commission.
43% : Ratcheting up the pressure on a handful of Republicans who wanted to allow proxy voting for new parents in the House, leaders folded language to kill that effort into a rule teeing up the SAVE Act and other conservative priorities.
8% : But it has preoccupied many in the GOP in the wake of the 2020 election, when Trump lost to Joe Biden but made unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud that have resounded through the ranks of congressional Republicans. House Republicans took up the bill weeks after Trump issued a sweeping executive order imposing stringent voter identification standards nationwide.

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