Political Quotes

“I want to thank my colleagues for supporting the Defending Elections against Trolls from Enemy Regimes Act, aka the DETER Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation I introduced with the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Blumenthal, and Senator Grassley. This legislation would prevent foreign regimes from exploiting U.S. immigration laws to undermine U.S. elections. Specifically, it would make ``improper interference in U.S. elections'' a violation of immigration law. Given the ongoing threat to the United States in terms of the integrity of our electoral process from Russian interference, we need to ensure that we are denying--and, if necessary, revoking--any visas to foreign nationals who seek to improperly interfere in our elections. One of the most important takeaways from the Mueller report is that Russia successfully attacked America in 2016 by doing everything it could to undermine our election process. Page 1 of the Mueller report says: ``The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.'' The report detailed numerous examples of Russian interference, including an ``intelligence-gathering mission'' that employees of the Internet Research Agency--also known as the IRA--took in June of 2014.…”