I will take it as the deepest compliment from my colleague, Mr. Davis, that he says that my amendment is wonky since I believe that is our responsibility here in Congress, to legislate and to develop good policy. I will also take that back to the working group that was a bipartisan working group that developed this amendment with me, the bipartisan Task Force Sentry, which really worked very hard to find a way to make sure that we would codify what was already being practiced by the FEC. This doesn't give the FEC any more power. It simply gives the power to us to be able to actually criminalize people by defining what it means to support foreign interference. I believe that this amendment does speak for itself, and I am very, very grateful for the compliments of how this is a policy wonk's dream. I will go ahead and interpret the gentleman's words. I very much would encourage Americans to understand why we need to prevent funneling foreign money into our elections. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
On the recordOctober 23, 2019
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