Political Quotes

“first of all, I want to thank my friend, the Senator from Minnesota, Ms. Klobuchar, for her leadership and passion on this issue. This shouldn't be that hard. I know we addressed some of the legislation she has talked about, and also earlier Senator Blumenthal came to the floor as well. I think the theme you are going to hear from all three of us is that while we may have made some progress, the truth is, we are simply not doing enough to secure our election infrastructure. There is a series of bills that I think are common sense and, if they got to the floor, would get 75 votes and maybe even more. Over the past few weeks, I have come to the floor a couple of times to try to move by unanimous consent my legislation known as the FIRE Act. I am not going to do that this morning, but I do want to highlight this bill as one more example of commonsense, bipartisan election security legislation that unfortunately is not getting its chance to be debated on the floor of the Senate. The FIRE Act would simply require Presidential campaigns to do the right thing and report offers of foreign assistance--offers which are already spelled out as illegal--to the FBI. Anyone who says it does anything else, such as limiting contacts with the foreign press or limiting contact with foreign diplomats--somebody said it might eliminate communications with Dreamers--is just flat wrong. If there are ways to improve the bipartisan legislation, I am wide open to that.…”