mr. barrasso: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: thank you, madam president. i come to join my colleague from florida, former governor, now u.s. senator, and talk about the save democracy act and the issues that are facing our nation today. and i want to do that because over the past several weeks, democrats, the media, their corporate allies have been misleading the american people about our voting laws. democrats have been pushing a false narrative all around the country, trying to scare americans into pushing and pressuring congress into passing a federal election takeover. madam president, federal election laws and state election laws, as guided by our constitution, say that it is states that should be making the decisions about how we run our elections at home. but what you see coming out of the democrats and their h.r. 1, then called s. 1 is a law that changes things dramatically and takes decisions out of the folks at home in wyoming and puts them in the hands of folks in washington, d.c. people in wyoming, as i talk

mr. barrasso: madam president in. the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: first, madam president, aid he lake to associate myself i'd like to associate myself with the remarks of the senator from iowa. i admire her fortitude and dedication. madam president, 99 days ago, joe biden took office, took the oath of office. we were there. he gave an inaugural address. he said, quote, with unity, we can do great things. he said, unity is the path forward. well, that was the last example of unity and bipartisanship that we've seen from president biden. he has lost all credibility when it comes to bipartisanship or unity. in just 99 days, president biden has already shown himself to be one of the most radical presidents in american history. when i'm in wyoming, as i am every weekend and have been over easter as well, traveling the state, talk to people, they ask about two specific issues. one is energy and the second is the southern border. on these two specific issues, madam president, president biden has already done tremendous damage, damage toll our coun

mr. barrasso: thank you, madam president. ask that senator boozman, senator marshall and senator did durbin be able to speak prior to the vote. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. barrasso: i come to add my remarks to the senator from oklahoma. the democrats are running 100-yard dash toward socialism. they decided to redistribute american's wealth, president obama used to call this spreading the wealth around. democrats are taking the wealth of our nation and they are gathering up in washington, d.c., and deciding then how they want to spend it. in march president biden signed a big payoff to the people who run the democrat party, the union bosses, the d.c. bureaucrats and bankrupt blue states. he said it was a kroins relief -- coronavirus relief bill. now president biden is back requesting $2.7 trillion under the namesake of infrastructure. when you read through it, it looks like once guiness trying to spread the wealth around, gathering it not for what we consider traditional infrastructure, ro

mr. barrasso: thank you, mr. president. first, i madam president, i'd le to aassociate myself with the fine remarks of the senator from alabama. the senator from alabama and i traveled together along with senator cruz and senator cornyn just a few weeks ago. we had, i think, a total of 19 senators that went to see the crisis firsthand. and in fact it's not just one crisis, as the senator from alabama and i have both spoken about. it is a double crisis. it's a national security crisis as well as a humanitarian crisis. we went on a midnight patrol, and what did we see at midnight? well, we saw and we heard -- not just did we see the lights on on the other side of the rio grande, we heard the cat calls from traffickers who were taunting our u.s. border patrol agents, saying in spanish, you cannot stop us now. that is what we're hearing from the criminals and the traffickers across the rio grande. we saw signs on the ground directing migrants to the facilities where they will then turn themselves in. and we spoke to the border

mr. chairman, i will yield back. thank you for having me. >> thank you, senator bennett. senator barrasso. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. shortly after passage of the american rescue plan act, i got an e-mail from a constituent in wyoming. she's a tax preparer and she let her feelings be known about the inclusion in the bill of retroactive provisions that were implemented in the middle of the tax filing season. she had already filed taxes for some of her clients and then when you get a sudden change in the law, you know, what she had done was now wrong. i know that's not your doing, that's the law, that's the mistake made by the way this was passed by congress, but essentially, she was asking, reading between the lines, are we all nuts for doing that sort of thing and we have preparers around the country working and sending in things and clients who sign forms that are now incorrect. you know, the-- trying to explain that doesn't make it any better for what she's going through and her clients as well. can you understand the anger that my constituents are experiencing, having the ru

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