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Chairman Steil's full remarks as prepared for delivery:
Mr. Speaker, I'd like to start by thanking the gentleman from Colorado, Representative Crank, for authoring this very timely resolution.
Mr. Speaker, let’s set the stage.
Socialism has no place in the United States of America.
Hard work and merit are the backbone of the American Dream, not socialized outcomes or government control.
Our nation is at a crossroads.
Across the country, socialist policies are increasingly dominating Democrat politics.
Members of this body openly support key elements of the Democrat Socialists of America platform.
The mayor of our nation’s largest city is a socialist.
A U.S. Senator, who was a leading candidate for the 2020 Democrat nomination for president – is a socialist.
America has a choice.
We can go down the path of big government socialism.
Or we can keep fighting to shrink government and help the American people keep more of their hard-earned money.
The resolution condemns socialism, and it exposes the radical policies in the Democrat Socialists of America’s platform.
Let’s quickly look through the platform.
It supports giving the right to vote to 12 million non-citizens and criminals who are currently incarcerated.
It supports ranked-choice voting for all elections.
It calls for abolishing the electoral college and the United States Senate.
These are radical policies – and they would undermine the integrity of American elections and destroy our democratic system.
Now, contrast this radical agenda with what Republicans support.
We believe that American elections are for American citizens only.
We’re focused on making it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
Our goal is to strengthen election integrity.
That’s why we’re pushing commonsense reforms like requiring photo ID and citizenship verification when individuals register to vote.
Socialists are opposing these commonsense ideas, because they fundamentally oppose securing our elections.
Mr. Speaker, socialism is easy to elect – but it's nearly impossible to remove.
That’s because socialist ideology concentrates power in a way that has led to totalitarian rule time and time again.
Here at home, DSA leaders have repeatedly described our bicameral federal republic as inherently undemocratic.
Make no mistake: if socialists are given the chance they will abolish our democratic system.
Mr. Speaker, socialist policies are responsible for the death of over 100 million people worldwide.
This resolution rejects and condemns this dangerous ideology.
I urge my colleagues to support this resolution.
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