Rob Andrews: “McGovern-Jones-Welch is a straightforward, bipartisan amendment. It requires the President to certify that the…”

“McGovern-Jones-Welch is a straightforward, bipartisan amendment. It requires the President to certify that the Afghanistan Independent Election Commission and the Afghan Electoral Complaints Commission have the professional capacity, legal authority and independence to carry out and oversee free, fair and honest elections, absent the fraud that characterized the 2009 presidential elections, before U.S. taxpayer dollars can support the next round of elections. I don't think that that's too much to ask. I was in Afghanistan just after the 2009 elections. I didn't meet anyone who thought that those elections were honest. The Embassy told me they were a fraud. The U.N. said they were a fraud. The Afghan people knew they were a fraud. Even President Karzai conceded that they were massively fraudulent. And $200 million of U.S. taxpayer money went into those elections. Just think about it, $200 million. I don't want to see history repeat itself. I don't want the American taxpayer ripped off again.”