WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:

Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and California's former Secretary of State, issued the following statement as Republicans in Congress introduced the SAVE America Act, an updated version of the anti-voter SAVE Act (https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-statement-on-house-passage-of-save-act-that-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-americans/) which threatens to disenfranchise millions of eligible American citizens by creating even more burdensome documentation requirements, among other voter suppression provisions:

"Once again, extremist Republicans are proving tha...