Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for reading. Madam Speaker, I am going to read a quote from the Mueller reporter dealing with Russian interference. ``The first form of Russian election influence came principally from the Internet Research Agency''--and you will hear this evening, over and over again, the name IRA, and that is what it is--``the Internet Research Agency, LLC (IRA), a Russian organization, funded by Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin and companies he controlled, including Concord Management and Consulting LLC and Concord Catering, (collectively `Concord'). The IRA conducted social media operations targeted at large U.S. audiences with the goal of sowing discord in the U.S. political system. These operations constituted `active measures'''--and it is translated into Russian--``a term that typically refers to operations conducted by Russian security services aimed at influencing the course of international affairs.'' That is volume I, page 14. I am going the read one more, and this is from volume I, pages 14 and 15. ``By the end of the 2016 U.S. election, the IRA''--that is that Russian organization that has influenced the media in the United States of America in our elections--``the IRA had the ability to reach millions of U.S. persons through their social media accounts. Multiple IRA-controlled Facebook groups and Instagram accounts had hundreds of thousands of U.S. participants.…”