Barry Loudermilk: “I thank my good friend, colleague, and the ranking member for yielding this time. I also want to say how thankful I am…”

“I thank my good friend, colleague, and the ranking member for yielding this time. I also want to say how thankful I am that we are in this body, in public, in front of the American people debating something that is very important to this Nation, that at least this process isn't held in the basement of this building, behind closed doors, away from the American people like some other issues are being held right now. I am at least still thankful for that. But here we go again. It is another attempt by our friends on the other side to bring a bad idea to fix a bad situation. This is the third attempt for a Federal takeover of our election system. It kind of reminds me of a popular commercial that is on television right now about these young people in a horror show. There is something evil after them, and they are outside of this spooky, old house and are like: ``We have to go somewhere to hide.'' One of the young people says: ``Why don't we get in the running car?'' The others say: ``That is a dumb idea. Let's go hide in the spooky shed behind the chainsaws.'' Here we go, running to chainsaws again, running to chainsaws, getting ourselves in a worse situation. This would have done nothing to prohibit the Russian meddling in the 2016 election--nothing. What would have made a difference is the Obama administration, which was advised that the Russians were attempting to hack into our system, that they were meddling.…”