Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell chalked up Monday’s rare Senate Rules Committee field hearing in Georgia on voting rights to a “silly stunt” and a “partisan circus” by Democrats.
“Democrats’ fake outrage may have driven jobs and opportunities out of the state of Georgia, but I’m sure Georgians will appreciate that Democrats are bringing their own partisan circus to town instead,” McConnell said in a statement on Monday.
“This silly stunt is based on the same lie as all the Democrats’ phony hysteria from Georgia to Texas to Washington D.C. and beyond,” McConnell said.
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Monday’s hearing on “protecting the freedom to vote” is the first field hearing for the committee in 20 years.
The Georgia location was chosen due to a Republican-supported election law that adjusts the time frame for early voting, shortens the window for mail-in ballots, extends voter ID requirements to mail-in ballots, prohibits the distribution of food and water to voters in line, and ends the use of ballot drop boxes.
President Joe Biden called the bill “Jim Crow on steroids.” Democrats point to that new law and other Republican “election integrity” legislation as a threat to voting rights and to bolster their argument in favor of sweeping election overhaul bills such as the H.R. 1 and S. 1 For the People Act.
“Americans agree with Republicans: It should be easy to vote and hard to cheat,” McConnell said. “You have to ask yourself why Democratic politicians across America are this panicked and this hysterical over modest ballot integrity measures, like voter ID, which big majorities of Americans support.”
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Georgia also happens to be the state where new Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock faces a battleground election in 2022.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Democratic chairwoman of the Senate Rules Committee, is planning a series of other hearings on voting and campaign finance reforms.
