{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://bergman.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1292", "Bergman-Backed Bill to Safeguard Elections Passes House", "2024-07-11", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "House", "MI", "Jack Bergman", "B001301", "bergman.house.gov", "bergman", "https://bergman.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which Rep. Jack Bergman cosponsored, and which requires individuals to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m proud to have cosponsored this commonsense legislation that passed the House with bipartisan support, albeit slim. Rooted in constitutional reality, the SAVE Act reaffirms what we already know \u2013 that only American citizens should be able to vote in American elections. With the worst, most porous borders our country has ever seen, this bill is absolutely necessary to ensure our elections remain free and fair,\u201d Rep. Jack Bergman stated.\n\nFacts About the SAVE Act:\n\nWhile falsely claiming the 2016 was \u201cstolen\u201d due to \u201cforeign election interference,\u201d Democrats ignore the real threat of foreign election interference posed when noncitizens are allowed to register and vote in U.S. elections.\n\nLax voter registration laws make it possible for noncitizens to register and vote in federal elections while campaign finance loopholes allow noncitizens to fund U.S. election activities \u2013 both of which can affect the outcome of our elections.\n\nThere is ample evidence that noncitizens are voting in U.S. elections:\n\nA 2014 study that analyzed the 2008 and 2010 elections concluded that not only had noncitizens illegally voted in U.S. elections but also that the votes of noncitizens likely determined the outcome in certain races.\n\nIn states like Massachusetts, Ohio, and Virginia, noncitizens have recently been removed from the voting rolls \u2013 and many of those noncitizens had voted.\n\nThe Arizona Secretary of State website is currently falsely promoting the idea that individuals who fail to present proof of citizenship when registering will \u201cbe eligible to vote in federal elections.\u201d\n\nRecently, the House Committee on Administration reported the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, H.R. 8281, will:\n\nRequire an individual to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections; and\n\nProvide states with access to existing federal databases so they can clean up their voter registration rolls and remove noncitizens from the rolls.\n\nRead the full text of the bill here", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:24:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://bergman.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1292"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.127190887928009, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}