Amy Klobuchar

The more that we can facilitate the movement of data across borders, the more that we can have an open internet system

This is such an important topic, digital trade, with 95 percent of our potential customers outside of our borders.

I introduced the Improving Rural Call Completion and Reliability Act with Senators Thune and Tester.

That is what I would consider a stupid mistake.

Because of the portion of the cloud they put it on?

Last August, we heard about 1.8 million in Chicago voter records and potentially sensitive information was being exposed.

Do you think it is responsible to sell paperless election systems in 2018, given what we know?

I was pleased Senator Shaheen and I wrote a letter asking if any of the top three voting machine companies have been asked to share the source code or other sensitive details with Russian entities.

The Secure Elections Act calls for states to implement audits in order to confirm election results.

Senator Lankford and I, our bill would expand the Technical Guidelines Development Committee's mission and membership to provide additional cyber security expertise.

Yes, not the fault of our election person. All right, very good.

Commissioner Hicks, several of the election officials at our last hearing complimented the EAC's efforts to quickly distribute the $380 million for election security funding from March.

I think it was former Senator Coats, who is the National Intelligence Director, who has said that, in fact, they are getting bolder.

Senator Klobuchar and I have worked on this, along with Senator King, I see in the room, on our broadband caucus connectivity.

It should be completely up to the states to be able to run that.

There was not near enough communication between the Federal Government and the states leading up to the 2016 time period.

We have worked on together is to be able to form how do we head off this issue from coming at us again.

The states need to be able to continue to control elections.

I have absolutely zero doubt that the Russians tried to influence our elections; that they were trying to engage in any way that they could to bring instability to our democracy.

Americans need to have paper ballots marked by hand. Until that system is adopted, every election that goes by is yet another election that foreign governments, hostile foreign governments including Russia, can hack.

It is clear to me, Mr. Chairman, these companies want to be gatekeepers of our democracy, but they seem completely uninterested in safeguarding it.

My legislation focuses on two common sense measures that are backed by the overwhelming number of cyber security experts in our country: Paper ballots and risk-limiting audits.

Congress must do everything we can to defend our elections and bolster Americans' confidence in our democratic process.

It became very clear that while a lot of the focus on the interference has been about the general election in 2016, it was also going on in the primary.

It is truly vital that we work together, and this is one effort, but there are so many others going on.