Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I rise in support of my amendment. This amendment would strike section 7070(d) from the bill, removing language banning the State Department and other agencies from identifying, classifying, or facilitating the classification of any communication by a United States person as misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation, and banning the Federal Government from partnering with nonpartisan, nonprofit, outside experts to identify these threats. On January 7, 2021, a day after the January 6 insurrection, the National Intelligence Council, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, NSA, and the State Department disseminated a then-classified report entitled, ``Foreign Threats to the 2020 U.S. Federal Elections.'' That report was declassified 2 months later, and in it, the best minds of our intelligence community wrote, ``. . . Russian President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian Government organizations conducted, influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden's candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process and exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the U.S.'' It went on to say that: ``Unlike in 2016 . . . A key element of Moscow's strategy this election cycle was its use of proxies linked to Russian intelligence to push influence narratives--including misleading or unsubstantiated allegations. . . .'' Mr.…”