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Chairman Steil on Reconciliation 3.0: “I would love to see us get the entire SAVE America Act done and across the line. The House of Representatives has done its job. It is our frustration that the Senate continues to fail to get this done, but inside a reconciliation structure there are ways to incentivize states to do this or require states to do this as well. We need to make real and substantive progress in election integrity, in particular making sure states are vetting whether individuals are citizens or noncitizens and indicating that on drivers' licenses. This is a huge opportunity to make sure states that are giving drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants, like Illinois or New York or California, that we are vetting that out and preventing them from voting. Further, there are already 23 states that have a really good voter ID law on the books, 36 states in total have some form of it and other states like California have it as a ballot initiative coming up. We have an opportunity to also use some of these funds to incentivize or force states to get voter ID legislation on the books between now and the election.”
Chairman Steil on the Stop Insider Trading Act: “This is our opportunity to make a real and substantive step forward as it relates to ethics in the United States House of Representatives and Congress writ large. It’s my view that if you come to Washington, D.C. you shouldn’t be trading stocks day in and day out. If you want to do that there’s a place for it, it’s called Wall Street. If you’re coming to Washington, you should solely be working on behalf of the American people. There’s a lot of concerns with Members of Congress trading individual shares of stock. I think the answer is straightforward. Prevent Members of Congress and ban Members of Congress from trading stock while serving on behalf of the American people. The American people deserve to know with confidence that their members are not leveraging inside information for profit. My legislation accomplishes that goal. I was excited that the President of the United States called that out in his State of the Union. Vice President JD Vance came and spoke to Republicans at our conference meeting earlier this week saying, ‘let’s move this bill forward.’ It will be on the floor next week and every person in the United States of America will know where their representative stands. Do they think Members of Congress should be trading stocks, or do they agree with me, President Trump, and countless others that Members of Congress should not be trading stock while serving in Congress.”
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