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House to vote next week to require citizenship check and photo ID for voting, upping Senate pressure

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said floor vote will force Democrats to declare where they stand on two election integrity items widely supported by Americans.

he U.S. House of Representatives will vote next week on a new bill that would require all states to check both citizenship and photo identification before allowing voters to cast ballots, combining two widely popular election integrity provisions and ramping up pressure on a Senate that has been unwilling to consider either mandate.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, confirmed in an interview Wednesday evening with Just the News that the vote will be held next week for the Save America Act, which combines the two requirements that have passed the House individually but not received a vote in the GOP-controlled Senate.

Roy is the chief sponsor of the legislation in the House, joined by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, in the Senate.

“I’m announcing that we are bringing Chip’s bill, the SAVE America Act, to the House floor next week,” Scalise said in an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast. “So it’s on the floor, and everybody’s got to pick a side: do you want to make sure that only American citizens vote in elections and that you have to show an ID to vote?

“You can’t get into a bar, you can’t get on an airplane without an ID and if we want to make sure the franchise of America’s democracy is in place, let’s do this as well,” Scalise added.

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