July 25, 2019

Even now, GOP stands in the way of new election-security safeguards

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/even-now-gop-stands-the-way-new-election-security-safeguards?fbclid=IwAR395KhkoWbGIm9MMX1JsIOBtfdm88YR8hEaDOoEfyCSS0yi75p0jxeFfM8
"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has rejected calls to even allow the upper chamber to vote on the legislation. It was against this backdrop that Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, went to the Senate floor yesterday, seeking unanimous support for a related bill, called the “Foreign Influence Reporting in Elections Act” (or FIRE Act), which would require campaigns to report attempts at foreign elections interference to the FBI and the FEC. Republicans have blocked this proposal before, and yesterday, they did it again. The context is extraordinary. Not only have lawmakers heard unambiguous warnings from the likes of Coats, Wray, and Mueller, but they also heard Donald Trump tell a national television audience last month that he’d welcome foreign interference in his re-election campaign, laws and patriotic norms be damned."