Rae Oliver Davis

Congress's role is to assist States to strengthen their election security, not create a Federal takeover of election systems.

What are we doing as a Federal Government with this piece of legislation limiting the ability to bring new and safer technology into our election systems?

It seems like H.R. 1 to me.

I look forward to hearing your testimony and having a productive dialogue about the current state of CRS and ways in which improvements can be made.

What I am interested in doing is having this Committee lay out our expectations for a path forward that will drive the necessary institutional changes that are needed in any agency.

An agency with such an influential and rich history should be the gold standard of research organizations not just here but worldwide.

Let me be clear: I expect the Congressional Research Service and the Library of Congress to respond to the concerns and recommendations expressed by the Committee today.

Congress has relied on CRS since the early 1900s as its primary support agency for public policy research and analysis.

Safety has and must continue to be a focus of the surface transportation reauthorization bill.

I do not think the rules that we pass in this committee, the bills that we pass and sign into law, ever intended for somebody like that to be impacted the way he is.

Dear Chair Holmes Norton and Ranking Member Davis:

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assisting States with the tools they need to protect their election systems is the proper role for the Federal Government.

I believe we must approach election security on three fronts.

we can make a bunch of partisan noise. We can do that here today and blame one another for who should have done more to protect our elections. Or we can make progress.

Election security is one of the most important issues that this Committee is tasked with, and I take the Committee's role of ensuring fair and secure elections very seriously, as I know you do too.

we must work together to make sure the progress in keeping our Nation's election system secure and free from inference is our number-one priority.

voter fraud does exist, and we must ensure our States are prepared against it.

Today, I want an honest assessment of what we have gotten right and what we have gotten wrong over the last 17 years.

Facts matter, statistics matter and help us determine how we effectively spend taxpayer dollars to ensure that we have the fairest, safest, most secure election systems.

Election security is one of the most important issues that this Committee is tasked with and I take the responsibility of ensuring fair and secure elections extremely serious.

I am for an election system remaining--I am for election systems remaining as critical infrastructure.

We know that at least 21 States were targeted by a foreign state actor prior to the 2016 U.S. election and we know that Russia undertook a misinformation campaign during the same election.

For the Federal Government to come over and to overreach and to take over the administration of the elections at all levels, first, I don't think it is appropriate. Secondly, I don't think it is constitutional.

But, again, it was historic high turnout in the Native American counties here in North Dakota.