On the recordJuly 18, 2018
I thank the gentleman for his leadership on this, but this is a point of national emergency right now. This is our democracy, this is our Constitution that is at stake. And as I understand it, every State of the Union wants election infusion funding coming from the Federal Government and needs it in order to fortify against cyber attack. In my State, in Maryland, we just were able to determine that a private vendor that is one of the lead contractors in our election system has Russian ties and is being controlled by someone very close to Vladimir Putin. So we need an infusion of Federal help to fortify our election. So please continue and do whatever you can with the Republicans just to allow us a vote on the floor. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman's comments. What this House needs is a little democracy.
