Roy Blunt: “I want to talk for a few minutes about securing our election process. At various times, in the last 4 years, there have…”

“I want to talk for a few minutes about securing our election process. At various times, in the last 4 years, there have been different levels of reasons why the Federal Government needed to take over the election process. For a while, it was that the process was too easily infiltrated by outside influences, and then it was COVID-19, and it was important that everybody vote in different ways than they have ever voted before, and somehow only the Federal Government could manage that. I would say that, in that, just as we look toward the 2020 elections, we have spent over $1 billion. I think it is $1.2 billion in funding from the Congress. We have had dozens of hearings in the Rules Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and the Homeland Security Committee. There was a 3\1/2\-year bipartisan investigation that I was part of as part of the Intelligence Committee, and we have looked at this about every way we can. Right now, people across the country are beginning the process of casting their votes. This year, more than any other year up until now, we will have election day, but, really, we will have more like ``election month,'' and, in some States, it is going to be ``election 6 weeks'' or ``election 7 weeks.'' So this process is starting right now.…”