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With Democrats projected to win back control of at least one chamber of Congress in this fall's midterm elections, Republicans are now banking their hopes on legislation that could make it much harder for millions of Americans to cast a ballot.

The New Republic (TNR) reported Thursday that Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), who chairs the House Administration Committee, is behind the new Make Elections Great Again Act. TNR described the legislation as a laundry list of far-right policy priorities "that would actually impose severe restrictions on voting across the country."

Steil's bill would mandate that all voters across the country present a photo ID to be able to vote, require all mail-in ballots arrive for counting no later than Election Day, make voters manually opt in to cast votes by mail and eliminate ranked-choice voting for federal elections, among other restrictions.

"Americans should be confident their elections are being run with integrity – including commonsense voter ID requirements, clean voter rolls, and citizenship verification," Steil stated. "These reforms will improve voter confidence, bolster election integrity, and make it easy to vote, but hard to cheat."

However, TNR noted that Steil omitted "one of the bill’s most troubling features," in that states would be required to create a single digital database of all registered voters to serve as "the official voter registration list for the conduct of all elections for Federal office in the State."

The Make Elections Great Again Act also requires voters to provide documented proof of citizenship for all federal elections. Voters would also be subjected to periodic eligibility reviews "on an ongoing basis, but in no case less frequently than once every 30 days." The Brennan Center for Justice reported in 2024 that more than 21.3 million people – roughly nine percent of all Americans of voting age — do not have citizenship documents readily available. Roughly 3.8 million don't have those documents at all due to them being lost, destroyed or stolen.

Steil's legislation would also empower Attorney General Pam Bondi to sue individual states if they don't comply with the new federal restrictions on voting, and would also allow private citizens to sue state election officials if they add a new voter to the rolls without verifying their citizenship. While the bill may pass the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, it would need the support of seven Democrats in the U.S. Senate to make it to President Donald Trump's desk.

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I’m no political consultant, but I don’t think I would make “fraud” the theme of the Trump administration’s midterm election campaign push.

At least not while the reflecting pool disaster remains in the news, the White House is doubling down on sticking with its no-bid contract for the company that oversaw the algae-infested, peeling pool mess, and President Donald Trump is making headlines for raking in $2.2 billion since he came back into office, including $1.4 billion from the Trump family’s cryptocurrency scheme.

“We have got to have a governor who takes fraud as seriously as the President of the United States,” Vice President JD Vance declared Wednesday in Milwaukee during a speech apparently intended to boost Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany.

Vance’s remarks, delivered ahead of a $10,000-per-couple fundraiser ($35,000 if you wanted a photo with the VP), could be read in different ways.

One way is in the context of the poster-sized photo Vance displayed of a Black woman “with the smug look and a Louis Vuitton bag,” as Vance put it — one of the people who owned prenatal care coordination businesses that a 2022 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation found had defrauded Medicaid, costing the state more than $15.5 million among them between 2019 and 2022.

Vance, although he was elaborately praised by other Republicans at the Wednesday event in Milwaukee for leading the Trump administration’s crackdown on healthcare fraud, had nothing to do with uncovering the prenatal care scandal in Milwaukee. That was the dogged work of the Journal Sentinel reporters whose efforts led the state Department of Justice to investigate, cut off Medicaid to the fraudulent businesses and pursue criminal charges — all of that years before Vance took office. But Vance saw an opportunity in Milwaukee to connect various Trump administration claims about fraud to a picture of someone Ronald Reagan would have called a “welfare queen.” In his speech, Vance moved directly from that photo to the Trump administration’s efforts to “kick illegal aliens out of our country.”

Black people, immigrants and people who receive food assistance and Medicaid are the “fraudsters,” according to Vance and Republican Reps. Tiffany, Derrick Van Orden and Bryan Steil, who joined Vance on stage in Milwaukee. They denounced Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers for not sharing sensitive personal data on SNAP recipients with the Trump administration. Vance called Evers’ refusal “borderline criminal.”

“Why won’t Tony Evers turn over the SNAP rolls? ‘Cause he’s cooked the books!” Van Orden hollered.

Steil connected claims about fraud in SNAP and Medicaid to discredited allegations of voter fraud, calling the federal takeover of elections Trump has been trying to force on Congress as “total common sense.”

When a reporter asked Vance about Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson’s request to talk to him about the harassment of election workers by FBI agents deployed to Milwaukee to “investigate” nonexistent voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, Vance implied that Johnson is trying to cover up the fraud.

All of this hype about fraud and repeated assertions by the GOP chorus in Milwaukee that the Trump administration had saved the taxpayers of Wisconsin billions of dollars by rooting it out, is meant to cover up a much, much bigger problem.

Medicaid cuts pushed by the Trump administration and supported by Tiffany, Van Orden and Steil, coupled with the same Republicans’ refusal to renew Affordable Care Act tax credits, have already pushed about 22,000 Wisconsinites off their health insurance. A new KFF report shows that insurers on the ACA marketplace are planning another double-digit increase in rates this year, driven by inflation and the loss of the tax credits, which will cause even more people to lose coverage. Altogether, more than 258,000 Wisconsinites will lose health coverage by 2034 because of Trump administration policy changes, according to projections by the Congressional Budget Office.

While Van Orden was yelling from the stage in Milwaukee about people who are ineligible for SNAP allegedly signing up for the program and “literally taking the food out of the mouths of hungry babies,” Wisconsinites know that he voted for SNAP cuts and changes to eligibility rules that led to 15,500 Wisconsinites losing food assistance.

Instead of adequately funding healthcare, food and a decent society, Republicans pushed through trillions of dollars in tax giveaways to corporations and the very rich, tens of billions of dollars for a domestic paramilitary organization that is conducting violent arrests of people who pose no public safety risk, and hundreds of millions of dollarsfor an obscene White House ballroom and no-bid contracts for Trump’s vanity projects on the national mall. That is the real fraud.

Republicans are screaming about “waste, fraud and abuse” to try to distract voters from all of this destruction and graft. But their “fraud” talk just reminds people of the stunning theft of public resources they’ve enabled and are now trying to cover up with flimsy, slanderous lies.

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This article reads more like an ad for the person to me instead of a neutral description of the person. I think that this might need to be rewritten from a neutral standpoint.

216.138.61.221 (talk) 06:27, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

I agree...it's like a PR team put it together. SocialistWithAComputer (talk) 02:06, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Thirded. IP addresses in the 2601 range seem responsible for most of it. I'll try to get to it within the next week

Bryan George Steil (/ˈstaɪl/ STYLE; born March 3, 1981^[1]) is an American attorney, businessman, and Republican politician from Janesville, Wisconsin. He is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin's 1st congressional district since 2019. Since 2023, he has served as chair of the House Administration Committee. Prior to his election to Congress, he served as a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.

Early life and education

Steil attended Joseph A. Craig High School in Janesville, Wisconsin,^[2] where he was born and raised.^[3] He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Georgetown University, and his Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin School of Law.^[1]

Early career

In 2003, Steil spent a year working as an aide to U.S. representative Paul Ryan.^[4] Before his election to Congress, Steil spent a decade in the manufacturing industry in southeast Wisconsin. He was an executive for plastics manufacturer Charter NEX Film.^[4] He also spent time working for Regal Beloit, spending a short stint in China while working for the company,^[5] and also spent time at McDermott Will & Emery as an attorney.^[3]

In 2016, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker nominated Steil to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents,^[6] and the Wisconsin State Senate unanimously approved him.^[7]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2018

Main article: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin § District 1

Steil won the 2018 Republican primary in the race to succeed retiring incumbent and then speaker of the House Paul Ryan in Wisconsin's 1st congressional district.^[8][9] He went on to face Democratic nominee Randy Bryce in the general election.^[10] During the campaign, Steil was endorsed by, among others, Ryan and Donald Trump.^[11][12] Steil defeated Bryce with 54.6% of the vote.^[13]

2020

Main article: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin § District 1

Steil was reelected in 2020 with 59.3% of the vote, defeating Democratic nominee Roger Polack.^[14]

2022

Main article: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin § District 1

Steil was reelected in 2022 with 54.1% of the vote, defeating Democratic nominee Ann Roe and Independent Charles Barman.^[15]

2024

Main article: 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin § District 1

Steil was reelected in 2024 with 54.0% of the vote, defeating Democratic nominee Peter Barca and Green Party nominee Chester Todd Jr.^[16]

Tenure

Committee assignments

Committee on House Administration, Chairman
Committee on Financial Services
- United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets
- United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion

Caucus memberships

Republican Governance Group^[17]
Middle Class Jobs Caucus (Co-Chair)
Freshmen Working Group on Addiction
Future of Work Caucus (Founder/Co-Chair)^[18]
Republican Study Committee^[19]
Republican Main Street Partnership^[20]
Problem Solvers Caucus^[21]
Congressional Coalition on Adoption^[22]
Congressional Blockchain Caucus^[23]
Congressional Motorcycle Caucus^[24]
Rare Disease Caucus^[25]

Political positions

Steil has stated his top issues are workforce development, trade, and the student loan debt crisis. He opposes gun control measures, but supports funding for instant background checks.^[26][27]

Steil has stated that he favors making more trade partnerships with other countries.^[28] He has also advocated for more funding to be allocated to the region near the United States' southern border including support for finishing the Mexico–United States border wall.^[29] He also has called for more price transparency in the medical industry.^[30] Steil is an opponent of abortion and supports overturning Roe v. Wade.^[31] In 2020, he voted against federal aid for paid sick leave related to the COVID-19 pandemic, which passed 363 to 41 in the House.^[32] He later voted for the December 2020 COVID-19 relief bill backed by then-President Trump, the fifth-largest piece of legislation in American history.^[33]

On January 6, 2021, Steil condemned the 2021 United States Capitol attack,^[34] but did not call for Trump's removal from office, voting against the subsequent impeachment resolution on January 13.^[35] He voted against the Republican-sponsored objections to Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes, thus helping to certify Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.^[36] In May, he voted against forming the January 6 commission to investigate the attack.^[37]

On July 19, 2022, Steil and 46 other Republican representatives voted for the Respect for Marriage Act, which would codify the right to same-sex marriage in federal law.^[38]

Since 2023, Steil has chaired the House Administration Committee.^[39] In this role, he led hearings that contributed to the ouster of Architect of the Capitol Brett Blanton, following allegations toward Blanton of wrongdoing.^[40]

Personal life

Steil is a Catholic.^[30] In November 2020, he tested positive for COVID-19.^[41] Steil was born and raised in Janesville and attended Janesville Craig High School, Georgetown University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.^[42]

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a spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hit back at Republican members of the House of Representatives on Monday after three committee chairmen sent a letter demanding Bragg’s testimony about a potential criminal indictment of former president Donald Trump — and made false claims about New York City crime in the process.

Bragg is investigating an alleged hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, and reports indicate an indictment is imminent. According to the New York Times, “Last week, senior officials from the district attorney’s office and the state agency that runs the courts had preliminary discussions to plan for a possible indictment and arraignment.”

Trump on Saturday took to his social media site Truth Social and appeared to confirm reports he “will be arrested on Tuesday of next week.”

In a letter released Monday,Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), House Administration Committee Chairmen Bryan Steil (R-WI) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) requested Bragg testify "about what plainly appears to be a politically motivated prosecutorial decision.”

“We expect you will testify about what plainly appears to be a politically motivated prosecutorial decision,” the Republican leaders wrote.

The GOP chairmen then turned to bash the DA’s county, accusing Bragg of “adopting progressive criminal justice policies that allow career ‘criminals to run the streets’ of Manhattan.”

Responding to the letter, a spokesperson for Bragg “set the record straight about a few particularly egregious statements about the safety of our great city,” noting “homicides are down 32 percent in Manhattan” under Bragg “and shootings are down 14 percent.”

“We will not be intimidated by attempts to undermine the justice process, nor will we let baseless accusations deter us form fairly applying the law,” the spokesperson said.

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“New York remains on the safest big cities in the U.S. with a far lower murder rate than the most populous cities where the Committee Chairmen hail from,” the spokesperson added.}:

The statement concluded:

In every prosecution, we follow the law without fear or favor to uncover the truth. Our skilled, honest and dedicated lawyers remain hard at work.

You can read the Republican leaders' letter here and Bragg’s spokesman’s full response here.

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