Rep. Barry Moore supports continuing resolution with SAVE Act

September 19, 2024 – Washinton, D.C. - Congressman Barry Moore (R-AL02) released a statement after voting in support of a continuing resolution that would have kept the government funded for six months and includes the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office. Rep. Moore is a co-sponsor of this legislation.

Since the beginning of the Biden-Harris Administration, more than eight million illegal aliens have entered the country and 3.8 million immigrants have become naturalized citizens. In many states, illegal immigrants are eligible for driver's licenses and other benefit. Motor voter laws and various benefit programs provide both legal and illegal immigrants with ample opportunities to register to vote in federal elections. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) recently crafted a report on the importance of passing the SAVE Act. This legislation passed the House in July, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) has refused to consider it in the Senate.

"This is the most important election in our lifetime, and Democrats want non-citizens to vote in it because they know Americans don't support their radical agenda," said Rep. Moore. "I have never voted for a continuing resolution before, but I believe we must do everything we can to prevent Democrats from manipulating our elections and benefitting from the border crisis they created at the expense of American families."

The Republican plan to keep the government funded failed because Democrats and some disaffected Republican House members opposed the plan.

With that plan dead on arrival Republican leaders on Sunday unveiled a new bipartisan, bicameral plan to keep the government funded for three months.

The new continuing resolution (CR) would keep the government funded at current levels through Dec. 20 setting up a holiday funding fight under the current Congress. The GOP plan on Friday would have funded the Congress for six months – handing decision making power to the new Congress – and the new President. Democrats are refusing to agree to a CR where former President Donald J. Trump and a Republican controlled U.S. Senate would be potentially at the negotiating table for the 2025 budget.

Democrats are also adamantly opposed to any measure that would prevent immigrants from voting as immigrants (however they got in the country) and first-generation Americans overwhelmingly tend to vote for Democratic candidates. Americans where both grandparents were born in this country tend to vote for Republican candidates.

The new funding plan does not include the Trump backed SAVE Act.

Many Republicans who backed Friday's CR will not support the new bipartisan CR, so Johnson will have to rely on votes from Democrats to pass the CR – as some GOP malcontents would not even support the GOP CR on Fridan.

Republican leaders are expected to bring up the new CR to the floor by Wednesday.

Some conservative hardliners prefer a government shutdown to the bipartisan bill.

Speaker Johnson warned that that could cost Republicans in upcoming elections.

"While this is not the solution any of us prefer, it is the most prudent path forward under the present circumstances," Johnson wrote GOP House members Sunday. "As history has taught and current polling affirms, shutting the government down less than 40 days from a fateful election would be an act of political malpractice."

"Since we fell a bit short of the goal line, an alternative plan is now required," Johnson wrote. This CR would also, "prevent the Senate from jamming us with a bill loaded with billions in new spending and unrelated provisions."

Barry Moore is in his second term representing Alabama's Second Congressional District. A federal court redistricted Moore and his native Coffee County into the First Congressional District. Moore narrowly defeated CD1 incumbent Jerry Carl (R-Mobile) – the Court redistricting plan sent half of Mobile County to CD2 – in the Republican primary in March. If Moore beats his Democratic opponent on November 5 he would be elected to his third term in Congress, but now representing CD1.

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