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On the recordOctober 23, 2019
Let me thank the gentlewoman for her leadership. Maybe my friends have gotten a little bit of absentmindedness. This is volume I and II of the Mueller report, a distinguished veteran of the Vietnam war. Page 174, volume I, it says specifically, well-documented: ``On February 16, 2018, a Federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities--including the Internet Research Agency, IRA, and Concord Management and Consulting LLC, Concord--with violating U.S. criminal laws in order to interfere with U.S. elections and political processes. The indictment charges all of the defendants with conspiracy to defraud the United States . . . three defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud . . . and five defendants with aggravated identity theft, Counts Three through Eight. Internet Research Agency Indictment. Concord, which is one of the entities charged in the Count One conspiracy, entered an appearance through U.S. counsel and moved to dismiss. . . . `' They were indicted on the basis of their interference in the 2016 election. Let me be very clear. I rise to support this legislation, grateful that in this bill is H.R. 2353. Duty to refuse or report foreign interference was language that I had that said that you cannot accept information from a foreign operative. With that in mind, I thank the gentlewoman from California for her leadership. Mr. Chair, I rise in strong support of H.R.…
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Sheila Jackson Lee
Democratic · Texas

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