{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshall-every-democrat-wants-to-vote-against-voter-id/", "Senator Marshall: Every Democrat Wants to Vote Against Voter ID", "2026-07-17", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "Senate", "KS", "Roger Marshall", "M001198", "www.marshall.senate.gov", "marshall", "https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Senator Marshall Joins Woodward and Whit on KNSS\n\nWashington \u2013 U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Ted Woodward and John Whitmer on KNSS Radio\u2019s Woodward and Whit to discuss the SAVE America Act and voter ID, Senator Marshall\u2019s call for an investigation of Dr. Fauci and the handling of COVID-19, how the Democrats plan to shut the government down again, the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act to lower healthcare costs by $1000 a family, and the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham.\n\nClick HERE to download the full video.\n\nOn passing the SAVE America Act:\n\n\u201cYeah, well, John, it is interesting why we cannot get 10 Democrats to vote for voter ID \u2014 to vote for proof of citizenship when you register, and then some type of reasonable guardrails around mail-in ballots. So that\u2019s what the SAVE America Act does. And by the way, Kansas does two out of three of those already \u2014 you know, we have voter ID, and then on mail-in ballots, we don\u2019t do the unsolicited ballots. But I think they could be tightened up a little bit more, so thank goodness for Ty Masterson and his team the last several years at our state house. But of course, that doesn\u2019t help us with California or Illinois or New York and these purple states or blue states that have no rules to speak of as well. So, I just want to emphasize how important this is. President Trump and I have both been fighting to get some type of vote on the Senate floor. I think we should just vote on them one at a time \u2014 let\u2019s make every Democrat, every Senate Democrat, vote against voter ID. They always have some reason when you show them a big bill, but let\u2019s do just that one piece, and then come back in a week, and let\u2019s vote on proof of citizenship, and then let\u2019s vote on something reasonable for guardrails around in-person ballots. The bill will provide some money for states already doing it, but that\u2019s not going to cut it with me. That\u2019s a nice little thing to say, \u2018Oh, we know this is a problem,\u2019 but my voters want voter ID across the country, period, full stop, end of the conversation. And right now we cannot get one Democrat to vote for it. It\u2019ll take 60 votes in the Senate to get this across the finish line for voter ID in every state.\u201d\n\nOn Senator Marshall\u2019s call for a special counsel to investigate Dr. Fauci:\n\n\u201cYeah, John, well, over a million Americans died from COVID, and over 20 million Americans have long COVID \u2014 not to mention the other havoc it created in people\u2019s lives. So, as you know, about a month ago, Tulsi Gabbard, on her last week there in the job as intelligence director, released a treasure trove of information that shows how Fauci interacted with the intelligence community to influence the report they gave to Joe Biden. I mean, it was all a farce to start with \u2014 they already had a conclusion, and then they just needed to find a couple patsies that would agree with them. But today, both the FBI and CIA agree with everything that I\u2019ve been saying now since 2020: that this virus was made in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Based upon the information from that treasure trove of information, we\u2019re asking for a special counsel \u2014 for the Justice Department to look into Dr. Fauci\u2019s funding of COVID research, his involvement, his cover-up, and then how he somehow he was able to suppress whistleblowers within the government as well. And finally, we want them to investigate the auto pen pardon. So, it\u2019s a full plate. Now Fauci is going to be in the Senate next week getting questioned, but I bet he\u2019ll take the fifth on everything. So, we need a full-throated investigation; there needs to be accountability so this doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d\n\nOn the possibility of another Democrat government shutdown:\n\n\u201cJohn, I would bet a lot of money that it\u2019s going to be another Schumer shutdown. You might as well just put it in the bank and start planning that September 30th will be the last day the government is funded. And they\u2019re not going to let us do anything. I\u2019ll give you an example \u2014 we\u2019re trying to get through these appropriations, which leads to funding the government, right? The NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act, came out of committee with large bipartisan support. Every year, this is passed by us \u2014 this is what funds the military. And the Democrats, even the ones that voted for it in committee, were not allowed to vote for it on the Senate floor. I could give you example after example of the same thing, and how they switch their votes when it gets to the floor. So, Chuck Schumer is running for his political life; they\u2019re being pulled; that party is being pulled far, far to the left by these socialists \u2014 and they readily admit they\u2019re Marxists as well. These radical Marxist leftists are out there pulling the party to the left. One of the reasons they gave for the NDAA votes being switched is that it supported Israel \u2014 there\u2019s funding in there for Israel, as there has been every year. So, it\u2019s a new day in Washington, and all I can tell you is I\u2019m just going to keep fighting, and we\u2019ll try and figure a way out through this. But right now, the Democrats hate Donald Trump so much they\u2019re not going to let anything get done.\u201d\n\nOn the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act:\n\n\u201cAh, something positive, here we go. So, patients deserve price tags, not surprise bills. So, this is a bill that I\u2019ve been working on now since I got to Congress eight or nine years ago and we\u2019ve improved it every year. It forces healthcare providers to show you the costs up front \u2014 so when you need that hip replaced, you need an MRI or whatever it is, you can look at the cost difference, and then you can choose. An MRI for your knee at one place may cost $3,000 and that same MRI with the same doctor reading it at another imaging center may be $600. The difference on hip surgeries I\u2019ve seen anywhere from $15,000 at one hospital to $60,000 to $80,000 in another hospital \u2014 and by the way, the one with the lower price has better outcomes. So, patients deserve price tags, and we\u2019re going to mark that bill up next week in committee. And I do have a large amount of bipartisan support for it. John Hickenlooper, the Democratic senator from Colorado, is helping me lead that bill. So, we will get it through the committee next week, and then we\u2019ll see if we can find a way to sneak it onto the floor, and Chuck Schumer let people vote positive on it. This can save patients $1,000 a month for a family on their insurance if you have transparency, letting patients become consumers again.\u201d\n\nOn whether Senator Marshall will take an appointment in the Trump Administration:\n\n\u201cThe answer is no. I mean, the answer to your question is yes, I\u2019m going to address it. But no, I will not accept something from the Trump administration to go work for him. I\u2019d be honored \u2014 obviously having run a hospital, a physician overseeing health departments, now a legislator for nine years, I do have a good breadth of knowledge of healthcare. But nobody\u2019s going anywhere \u2014 Secretary Kennedy\u2019s doing a great job, he\u2019s right where he is, Dr. Oz is doing a great job as CMS director and I\u2019m very honored to represent the people of Kansas. I have no intention \u2014 I am not going to go to President Trump\u2019s administration and would be honored to represent the people of Kansas again for another six years in the United States Senate.\u201d\n\nOn the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham:\n\n\u201cOh gosh, Lindsey was a dear, dear friend. One of my besties up there. Our desks are 10 feet apart, and Lindsey just kept me laughing; every time I saw him he made me laugh \u2014 very witty. And the interesting thing about Lindsey Graham is I bet there\u2019s 98 other senators who would say they were one of his best friends as well. He had the gift of hospitality, he made everybody feel welcome, we\u2019re going to miss him dearly. We get really tight \u2014 there\u2019s only 53 of us and we have lunch together every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. So, I lost a teammate, a friend. You know, the great thing is Lindsey was a godly man \u2014 sometimes he had a little rough mouth \u2014 but he had an encyclopedic knowledge of the Bible, and you know we\u2019ll get to see him again someday. So, we will miss him, and it\u2019s just now all starting to sink in.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-07-18T06:58:50Z", "2026-07-18T07:00:34Z"]], "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://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshall-every-democrat-wants-to-vote-against-voter-id/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4062609989196062, "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"}