'Can't Even Put A Sentence Together': GOP Lawmaker Bashes Biden After His Debate Performance

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At a House Rules Committee hearing on Monday, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) spoke about President Biden.

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00:00But here's the problem.

00:02More than 600 days ago, the American people entrusted House Republicans with the gavels

00:07in the committees.

00:08It's easy to see why.

00:11After nearly two years of an unchecked Biden administration, the country was reeling.

00:16On their watch, the nation endured grim milestone after grim milestone.

00:21The highest gas prices ever recorded, the worst inflation in four decades, 12 major

00:26cities with new homicide records, an unmatched illegal immigration crisis.

00:31At every turn, radical Democratic policies either created the issue or actively impeded

00:38the solution, or both.

00:41Everyday Americans drafted House Republicans to protect them from these harmful policies

00:45and provide a check on the White House.

00:49This is a duty the majority takes very seriously.

00:51Indeed, that's why we're meeting today.

00:55Sometimes it seems that President Biden can't even put a sentence together.

00:58But the administrative state, we're assured that he oversees, continues to churn out reckless

01:04left-wing policies.

01:06What's more, his presidency still emboldens his enablers.

01:10Together, their agenda imperils everything from the sanctity of the vote and Title IX

01:16to the availability of effective and affordable home appliances.

01:20In keeping with what we were hired to do, House Republicans are advancing measures meant

01:24to protect our country from the rash and untimely destructive policies of the left.

01:31President Biden welcomed an invasion at the southern border.

01:34From his rhetoric to the over 60 destabilizing executive actions he has taken since he took

01:40office, every corner of the world took him up on the opportunity to enter our nation

01:46illegally.

01:48The numbers don't lie.

01:50Since the president entered office, there have been more than 9 million illegal immigrant

01:55encounters nationwide.

01:57That doesn't include the almost 2 million known gotaways who evaded apprehension on

02:02President Biden's watch, more than the previous decade combined.

02:07For context, May marked the 39th straight month where monthly illegal encounters were

02:13higher than even the highest single month in the Trump administration.

02:19To add insult to injury, President Biden released nearly 5 million illegals into the country

02:23and is openly talking about a plan to reward their fellow lawbreakers with amnesty.

02:30His choices are shameful but not surprising.

02:33What is surprising is how fervently his surrogates and supporters dismiss concerns over illegal

02:39immigrants circumventing the letter of the law and corrupting our democratic process.

02:44The president and his enablers have been asking Americans to reject the evidence before

02:49their very eyes a lot.

02:52This one is no different, and the evidence that non-citizens register to vote and illegally

02:57cast ballots in federal elections is substantial.

03:01The National Voting Rights Act enacted in 1993 requires states to provide a federal

03:07voter registration form at the time an individual applies for a driver's license or for state

03:13benefits.

03:14In some states, non-citizens, including illegal immigrants, are eligible to receive their

03:19driver's license and public assistance, meaning non-citizens have undoubtedly been provided

03:25voter registration forms in these states.

03:29And they've been registering.

03:30For example, Pennsylvania admitted just a few years ago that it had inadvertently allowed

03:35over 10,000 non-citizens to register to vote, and a Georgia audit found that more than 1,600

03:43non-citizens had attempted to register.

03:45Alarmingly, this doesn't stop at registrations.

03:48In 2011, Fairfax County, Virginia discovered over 278 non-citizens on the voter roll and

03:55learned that 117 of them had actually illegally voted in Virginia elections.

04:00Additionally, over the past decade, several different Arizona counties reported finding

04:05hundreds of non-citizens on the voter rolls and determined that some of them illegally

04:10voted in federal elections.

04:12The SAVE Act, introduced by our colleague on the Rules Committee, Chip Roy, closes the

04:17loophole that was created by the National Voting Rights Act and supercharged by the

04:23left-wing sanctuary policies.

04:25It requires a proof of U.S. citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections

04:30for federal office.

04:32Anyone who believes in safeguarding our democratic processes from illegal foreign influences

04:37should vote in favor of H.R. 8281.

04:41This administration's radicalism also threatens Title IX, which has protected women and girls'

04:46access to educational opportunities for more than 51 years.

04:51In April, the White House released an unlawful Title IX rule that, one, ignores a Supreme

04:56Court ruling and, two, strips students and educators of their rights and, finally, enshrines

05:01in the law the left's ongoing war against parents.

05:05Since Title IX's enactment, female participation in high school sports has grown more than

05:101,000 percent and collegiate sports more than 600 percent.

05:15Their radical actions threaten this progress.

05:19Unlike the White House, House Republicans believe that women should be safe in intimate

05:23spaces and men should not compete in women's sports.

05:27It's why we're advancing H.J. Res. 165, which prevents the administration's radical gender

05:32ideology from infiltrating education and hijacking Title IX.

05:39Thanks to the Biden administration, the left's radical whims are also poised to infiltrate

05:43everyday American homes.

05:45The Department of Energy's new dishwasher efficiency standards would take more than

05:4912 years for the proposed efficiency upgrades to break even and would save Americans just

05:55$1.12 per year.

05:58Consumers understand what options work best for their households, and Washington shouldn't

06:02stand in the way of their appliance.

06:04Finally, the committee will consider H.R. 8772, the Fiscal Year 25 Legislative Branch

06:10Appropriations Bill.

06:12I anticipate my friend the Ranking Member will strongly disagree with my contextualization

06:18of today's meeting.

06:19I hope he will at least echo his fellow Democrats in the committee report and take no issue

06:24with the funding levels within the measure.

06:28The Legislative Branch Subcommittee delivered a robust $5.5 billion package that supports

06:33Congress and our ability to work on behalf of the American people.

06:38With that, I look forward to the testimony from our panels, and I welcome the opportunity

06:41to move important legislation to the House floor, and I would now ask our Ranking Member,

06:47Mr. McGovern.

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