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signed copies of sitter cruises books are available out there. i believe we have lots of copies. e in case you did not hear me te first time, getet joson outliving policy and vision for the country republican national lawyers association policy conference in virginia. his remarks about half an hour. [background noises]

[inaudible conversatio or a privilege to introduce the 50s six speaker of the house of mike johnson's a constitutional lawyer. i got for them for my presentation going to do something you will never hear me again i went to commend of article of thene "washington po" for for those who did not read marks peace in the "wagt" entite johnson, the accidental speaker mong the most consequential speakers. you need to read it. it's an excellent. and when i commend to you. with that i like to also not matter of personal privilege. the speakers son is that united states naval academy.

[applause] something i shirt my son was a 2016 grad. mr. speaker, think if your son servicee. with thank y service and coming to speak with us today. we really appreciate it. [applause]xr >> thank you so much so great to be with you all in the room of friends and friendly faces. i had to adjust the mic i was taller been i became speaker. they beat me down m there's a lot of things i love to share with you well this morning for it at one particulah you. just want to say at obviously will we all know is that our country is in straits right now. you can make an argument with the greatest collection of

cris rht now than we have had and maybe -- make certain the anytime of the modern era baby since world war ii but some people say since the civil war. they may not be w that. itls just feels like under assault. obviously every metric of public policy is a disaster and know the reasons why and i won't recount you know them well. but, something country that's even more fundamental one into a deep dive loan pulse issue with you. iefore that you all recognize we are in a battls that produce more fundamental than that but we are in a battle between two ionsor who we are as a nation. and who we are going to be. in my role exuded religious liberty mitigation for a long time. i was in federal courts around the country. id it to work for freedom

and some of the other groups. in that c before he got into politics had the opportunity to be in front of lot of student groups and talk about the constitution and the separation of powers and these great principles. i never turn those opportunities down. is i really important. i'm sure many of you do the same we do notant to waste those opportunities because we cannot any longer assume the generations behind us understand the basic principles but we need to take every opportunity to go out and be an evangelist for the core principles of the country. when i got elected to congress that same phenomena is true even i came in 2017 the same time president trump did. as lotst of furniture being movd around at the time but som furniture was just being broken and demolished. needed to be put in the courset of the change in the tumult and

andhe things going on and the republic i felt like as ase as a lifelong movement conservative and as a republican i felt like i could sense people were losing sites of the fixedoints in the horizon. sithat makes it a sense of it ad from louisiana i explained everything in a football hurricane metaphor. so the hurricane metaphor since it is almost as if we arearted . we are. the challenges areented extraordinary, the waves are high the skies on the horizon are dark. at a time like that when the writer is broken which most peoplel is, it could be dangerous. certry,or a nation. at that time and during those times you have to know the fixed point on the horizon are. so the ship o the state does not crash in the literal sense. i was in frontan of all my republican colleagues in the house in 2019 we are about two

years into the trump administration we are getting a lot of great things done. a lot of policy winds on the board and yet i was going b home to might read district in louisiana among lifelongtyactiv. also on capitol hill it's a sense that we havee a hard time defining what is going to be a conservative right now. atservism? i'm a student of the stuff w because as a constitutionaattorf our philosophy and our party and the changesan throughout the years. every 25 or 30 years there is an our country. i felt like we are at that moment. long story short i'm standing in front of -- make us look to chair of the republican committee. which is often called the teet arsenal of conservatism in the house it's now a 50-year-old caucus. everyone is so in the one or 15

congress. we were just elected to the group we were in a big room like this having lunch probably a little less than this is it okay guou for making me chairman, where the policy shop we are thece i the congress were our conservative philosophy is supposed to make its w into policy and be put on paper. we have got to be governed by found it where does that come from? i remember it ronald reagan spee's farewell address he said they call me the great communicator but i really wasn't he said i was communicating great things the same great things thatave guided our nation since its founding and he said to my colleagues that day . said listen w sight of the great things. what are they? because we are the leaders we are supposed to be able to go out into the cou aarticulate wid conviction and consistency who we are whato we stand for, rig?

this is what i want to give tears that we've go avrecalibrate what we are doing right now but we need to amend the bylaws of the first t about 20 years and we need to put in place points in our horizon so here is the think let me ask you a rhetorical question i asked him i said if you areowntn d.c. today you got on an elevator with the young millennial they are progressive and you get on the elevator you have a few minutes with the new all that to the top of the building you spark up a conversation you know they arers proud progressive. [laughter] i'm serious guys, i am serious what would you h? how would youou describe our o principal as opposed to theirs? we've got to be able to do that rightre people are they want toe points are. you know what they are? a rhetoo answer don't raise your handd bt what would you say? ifnse an entire ke until today.ervative and from

plforms for the last many decades to convince condense them down to one all the great conservatives we revered in the spired to over th if you took all that together put on one half page summary seven core principles ofca conservatism. as individual freedom, limited gomee o law, peace through strength, fiscal responsibility, freetsnd human dignity. now under each of those categories are subtegories. here is the think i'm not telling you that is the perfect list but i am saying that however you would articulate and define it you need to be prepared too we cannot just go out every day we have to say what we are for wha? as reagan said the same things that have guided our

nation since its founding we are the stewards of the things. if it's not done by us who will it be dohouse of the synth intos room today. because of who you are and what you do, all of us we have this platform. have influence. many of you have a gigantic sp o influence. and with all that comes extraordinary responsibility. i'm saying the obvious i am articulate what youw t be true intuitively there is a dearth of truth in the count pee to know what do we stand for why? the core principles calle the seven core principles of american conservatism. eally the core principles of america. they are und assault rightbe now because while most f the country used to recruit thesegr tngs we hear those an to preserve them when toh us conserve and defendns them.

this numr of people in the country that have open disdain for those principles. they do not revere them as you m as a rising number of people thiss progressive wing and thee america in to be something totally different breed they us to be some sort of european-style socialist utopia something. it isn't marxism and we all know that is a foolsrr a dangerous dangerous fools errand. what we are in a battle for is t■+ parties. it is, that is the daily e skirmish. but, we are in a battle as i said earlier, for theio like who are we as a nation?u ce importance of that this upcoming election cycle this a civil and civilizational moment for us it is a point of decisionn to determine whether we are going to a more our sales fnding principles of the country or we are going

to trade him for s else? heaven forbid if we make the letter choice. this is not a game it is for all the marbles. just think we neede thinking about that the policy prescriptions at all the things do we think about t principles because we lose them at our parham road 248 years old anyway july 4 our nation's birthday. if you look at the cycle of great societies and cultures some would say the average lifespan is about 250 y earsthere is no guarantee this d experience and self-governance can go on andex on. the live fire question for us to determine and i think we will. let me drill in on one of those pr its application today it's very real, speaking to maintain the rule of law which i think is one of the core principles onef the really, really important components of that is the integrity of our election system. it's a big issue in the country

my staff reminded me a i've beel events campaign events in over 103 cities and 27 states in thec last five months. i've got muche thi weekend. i enjoy it i i would never have been otherwise. meetingki with hard-working americans of all formsife will often times have time for q&a one of the first second questions that comes up its border, its economy it's election siteoe are really, really concerned can we trus the vote? republic ifutional you e cannot trust the integrity of y everything is jeopardized it's an underpinning of the whole thing. right now we are working to ensure what a concept that only americans decide american elections. as a risple who see this as an

change the electorate to put it bluntly. federalist 52 describes suffrage this way quote it is the rtle of republican government and it is. ke we want to maximize the participation ofin every citizen in our elections for the corollary to that is we want to mine thefraud and interference fundamental article of food fundamental principle we have the political left the advocates of open borders and adding non- citizens to the voting bloc ared some of them are admitting openly. the pendulum of our debate has swung from which americans should vote to the question of if only americans should vote? so we are having to address that. 2018 there is a particular democrat can it for governor in georgia who claim there's a big

blue wave coming she said very frankly quote that blue waves are not blue they are undocumented unquote. s ms. abrams said that it was suggesting a course noncitizens and iuldllegale part of the democrat bluera wave. who are not always that candid but increasingly the a serving in house judiciary committee which i even miss that this job. [laughter]we have these marathos and michael berries to witness a couple timeshe i'm sorry you had to endure that. i meet 12 -- 14 hour hearings t. late 19 chairman terry now that wat chair where they had neat control and who's worn down where about our 11 a of this hearing there's a few of us left of it leaned over and said poi of personal privilege, mr. chairman can ask you questions will off-topic but whder? wewe talk about immigration

issues. why would you do it? at thatt time many millions of americans would come through across the board of it right now i think the number is about 16 million illegals have come across a border since by an intentionally engineered it t o. we documented 64 executive actions he himself and mayorkas have taken the agencies have taken since joe biden walked into the oval office on day one to open the border wide. you knowhave i happened because. it is a catastrophe chairman and nadler everyone back home@w, it's a viral video everyone back home my constituents want to know and we cannot understand, why? why do with the open border? you allow them to vote in elections in new york city went back and forth he finally acknowledged it is true. model? do you want illegal immigrants to vote in elections? you think that's what we should

you'rehe country there is folks. it's he spent 11:30 p.m. at night. i like three church slaves in my eering me along the sending text, go get them brother mik [laughter] that is my biggest constituency] please strike that from the record.[laughter] but i said there it is pretty tojust admitted it. that is wha t do. clip about a d shared it again. people. like 16 milli m but the word is out. washon council, here's one example. they decided they want noncit voting. illegal immigrants. russian spies. if you're the amad from russia and you live in d.c. you can vote in local elections. think ab they can decide who is on the city council. who will serve as the local attorney general. senator bernie sanders hometown

n, vermont, is likewise welcoming election interference by noncitizens. mo dozen localities across the country right now are encourg e in municipal are encouraging noncitizens to vote in american elections. is this a strategy, is that what the party wants? i think it clearly is. they would certainly like tokeso expand. country would do that. i know i'm running short onme. george in arizona -- efforts going on everywhere. here is what you neednow. under the national voter registration act, we call themme mid-90's, and i alien who wants to vote in a federal election can do that because there's nothing that ising in their way. only thing under d

are you a u.s. citizen, check, er required. in fact, under current law states are prohibited from requesting proof of that. so here is the problem we have n up for welfare benefits because if you're allowed to stay more yr you're eligible for that. they go now to the welfare offices and the dmv or wherever the forms are and then they give them as a -- aftern u, they give them the voter registration. and many ofon them, of course, check the box. we have no idea knowing how many law because the current law doesn't allow for any proof. we think that this i

serious problem for the upcoming ti in an unprecedented moment of challenge. let's sayt' apprehensions at the border are around being confronted at the border is over 9 million. hdea how many people have come in totally undetected. we know the g awa numbers is several million. let's say there's a lot. just one out ofundr of these people vote in an election, you're talking aboutr. this could h be a lose elections they are now. it couldwi outcome of congressional seats and we think that me design. so right now congress has institution responsibility to step in the gap. to ensure election

pursuant to our power, ourty under t the congress may at any time by law make or alter regulations. now we are talking about federal elections, okay. we are not trying tovene. this is not a state's rights issues, we are merely saying, we can't open the door for voter fraud and you need to be to proof that you're a citizen. what a concept. it's controversial statement for us to so. so this is a common sense low-barrier safeguard t fraud and abuse. our legislation makes it as easy as possibliste to vote and most new voters and americans move to new states ano

do anything different than what right now.ne the overwhelming americans,he department of motor vehicles and you don't have to d different. it's just the normal process. if you don't goo the dmv or allows to use a wide array, that's allar and remove noncitizens from their existing r granting them access to databases that no cost to the states or localities from the department of homeland security and the social security that'll help and that's going to be, i think, a very importa step and responsibility we owe to the american people tonsure that we have free and fair

s. [applause] just to prepare for you this and i'm not going to go too much the counterargument. you can be sure that critics of this bill are g to howl and engage in scare tactics, they are goin that id requirements are an effort to suppress voter turnout, but i want you to encourage them to two look at the data, in 2019 the national bureau of economic research found that after ten s data from all 50 states, state voter id laws, quote, this is their report have avno negative effect on registration or turnout overall or for my groupedy gender, race, that's a nonptisan analysis. and that's the truth. and in some states voter turnoue id laws have been implemented id kansas are good examples of that. in the state of georgia, election officials are using the

databases and they're working itizen verification process and they have already, i mean, this has ju,hey have flagged thousands of noncitizens after they attempt today register to vote. so this is happening. it's bavarotology me that democrat groupre challenging the system even as it's catching ineligible voter and they are still howling about it. people are -- are going to be put on record and democrat d colleagues are going to have to explain heeople eosome answers to some important questions. if they opposed legislation, they blo psing it's abundantly clear that theyo sovn state and they want to see the few hour in some cases to

adversaries. remember we have tens of thousands nationalists, people from 160-something cou and many people who are not here to pursue our best interest. let's put it that way. we can't undo the founding prinesotpr the time to attack the rule of law. f it is the time to restore it d we have really one final shot to do so, i think. i'm going to close with this. that's eerpt of the quote f aliens might be admitted indiscriminately to enjoy rights of citizens of will of a single state the unionht itself be in danger by influx of foreigners hostile t institutions, ignorant of its powers and incapable estimate of its privileges. that's, that's lot to sink in. president biden has invited ande

on our country and we have to step up and secure our elections right now so that we can do our duty a d not just our core principles but our constitution itself think that we arise to that occasion. i think t lot of champions in consist and we are and share the simple truths asek often in everyue as has been offered and my point to them and my colleagues, guys, we have to speak with similary, conviction and con sis eveningia right now more than we have ever have before and if we tt we will be speaking into a complete vacuum of leadership and principle that the other side has provided reagan reminded us of that and he was quoting lincoln. we are different, we are

exceptional and the greatest nation, most powerful, free, benevolent, we are the best for the reason because we were buil. we have to maintain them because we will lose them at our parrel. we got to kee expanding the ranks. there's a lot more people, i think, i think, that agree othen for the country, we have to get to them and share that truth with them and we have to educate and that's how we are going save the republic and i think we will. thank you so much. [applause] >> i just mentioned we have a gift to g. as you guys know this

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