Analysis: Here's the one thing Republicans and Democrats could agree on during Barr hearing
Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“The special counsel’s report is the end of the road when it comes to the question of the Trump administration’s intent,” Sen. Joni Ernst said. “But it is just the beginning of the conversation on how we counter Russia and other foreign adversaries in their attempts to undermine our Republic.”for allegedly misrepresenting findings in the report from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and after which numerous Democratic senators called on the attorney general to resign.
But the last version of the bill, which would require state and local election security officials to have paper backups of votes and to do post-election audits, was pulled near the end of the past Congress after the White House expressed concerns. The Trump administration There’s no indication the White House has changed its position, and without White House support it will be difficult for any election security bill to pass the finish line.
“Otherwise, we are not going to have any clout to get backup paper ballots if something goes wrong in this election,” she said. Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham , who co-sponsored the earlier bill, directed a rapid-fire series of questions at Barr during the opening of the hearing, asking whether he expected Russia and other nations to try to interfere in the 2020 election and whether he “would support an effort by Congress, working with the administration, to harden our electoral infrastructure?”Sen.
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