Than in 2016 . Rep. Davis when we were charge 115th congress, we worked invest artisan way to 400 into our Election Security issues working with d. H. S. To administrators to fight back Cyber Attacks and also giving money to our states that our state and local officials can work with d. H. S. In hand to insure the Election Security of every single election because i elieve the most secure elections are actually the ones held at the local level. Host whats the most issue as of to day . Rep. Davis there is a lot about issues when it comes to election infrastructure. We need to look at the next most way of voting is going to those new methods. We sat down with folks who are of a block what chain type voting to where you can do it on your phone. Ts been used in certain elections in West Virginia. Those are the types of nnovations that could make our elections even more secure, but we shouldnt just throw off the have like the democrats tried to do. Host mr. Starks, go ahead. This week the house had a a bill that the democrats sponsored called the shield act. You have your own bill that is counter to that. Wonder if you can talk about what areas you think there might chance for democrats and on, where s to agree do you think you can find some Common Ground before the 2020 election . Rep. Davis we actually had the bipartisan bill when you look at the numbers are from yesterday. Matter of fact, i think we had three democrats vote for our to recommit which is basically my bill, the honest elections bill. The emocrat voted against shield act. The shield act could have been a bipartisan bill. Ith h. R. 1 and the safe act, they didnt include us or didnt want to work with us. Would have addressed could the things we agree on. E ought to be able to have a disclosure requirement when it comes to online political ads. A click threw so memo who paid for ads. The democrats didnt have a so we could ask any social media platforms what are they going to do to make work for us, how are they already working to insure that russianent going to be ads paid for in the next election like the 1100,000 that accepted in the 2016 election. Again, my colleagues in reallyton have failed to look at the progress that weve made in securing our elections. Host congressman, the provisions in the shield act bipartisan, either from senate bill with cospore soreship. The e saying that was not case . Rep. Davis no, the shield act, what the democrats tried o do is take a bipartisan bill called the honest ads act that supported. Ve they then said there is unanimous provisions that they in. What they put in was the act that passed the senate by consent. That didnt get put in until the rules committee the day before the bill on ebated the floor yesterday. So so put that in at the last and to claim unanimous bipartisanship is a little on the ingenuous democrats part. Youre pretty critical on the bill during the debate yesterday, saying something speech inhibiting free with the language in there. How was it different and how the bill democrats, backed by democrats rep. Davis the biggest change have, we want to empower the agencies that need to protect us have the experience and the ability to investigate foreign interference. Of s the department justice. I want anybody who interferes especially ctions, any nefarious foreign actors, i want them to be held accountable bit d. O. J. The democrats bill would not happen. Lowed that to one of the most egregious portions of the democrats bill of ourthink every member caucus was appalled by was they were going to allow the d. O. J. Attorney general to be able to go into any set essional district and the record straight if they determined that what is being political ad is not completely true. Now, i dont know about you, but i want bill barr coming into my district spending million taxpayer dollars setting the record straight for or against me. Hats not what we should be doing out here in washington, d. C. And clearly thats what the in crats were trying to put place. That provision alone i think unanimity on our side against the shield act. The current climate with how things are with impeachment that anything can be done on an Elections Security a bill in general given how heated things have been . Ep. Davis its really interesting. I heard a statistic right before got here that the democrat majority in the house has issued more subpoenas than house bills signed into law. Thats really not what the democratic majority promised the American People when they gave them control. Fix said they were going to our broken healthcare system. They have yet to put a bill on is leaving 60 million americans uninsured or coverage ed or having they cant afford to use. Trade a bipartisan agreement that Speaker Pelosi put on the floor today it would ass overwhelmingly in a bipartisan fashion. Its not that the bills arent out there. Its just that Speaker Pelosi didnt put the bills that on the floor. Yesterday was a prime example of that. Why in the world when you have a cosponsored by many of my republican colleagues and mark that t you just bill up in the House Administration committee and put a on the floor and get bipartisan win. No, instead they wanted to add provisions that they knew would result in just a partisan roll call. To impeachment, this week, as the Top Republican in committee, one of your sponeldz is member security. This week there are g. O. P. The rs who stormed into secure house room holding a deposition with their phones in facilities are afeguards as you know against electronic threats and phones are not allowed inside. Those your response to who did this . Rep. Davis its a sad way that it would ues thought be the only way to have access moving forward. If you look at impeachment and i to take a step back and wonder why speaker what shecided to start called an impeachment inquiry. F youre going to begin an impeachment inquiry, precedent set in this property, three happened. Has have a bill in the house and lets do it out in the open. Should be held with the judiciary committee. I believe thats where the American People should see what and they sitions are should say where those depositions are leading. Pelosi ately, speaker has decided to set new precedent and unfortunately what its to g to do, its going create an environment where no matter who wins an election for resident, if the house of representatives is controlled by another party, this may become status. Mmon i dont knowing thats right. I some of the rules understand were set by congressman boehner when he was charge and what do you think of the members doing what they did . I certainly hope members dont pose security risks. That is the most secure facility we have in congress. I know my colleagues had their phones rounded up and they were taken out. Thing. s a good in the end, what we have to do is also take a step back and what type of policies do ofneed to create to stop any these, any activities within our house operations. Its i dont think its a coincidence that just a when think o democratic colleagues staged a sittin on the floor of the house media devices when we are clearly instructed that is on the house floor and they were not promised for anything. A term precedent and probably led to the frustration that many of my colleagues felt therefore, nd, unfortunately, i think some of them didnt abide by the house as they should have. I have heard a lot of republicans take issue with the democrats have had with moving forward with impeachment. I also heard a couple that have concerns about the substance of what they have hearings. Out of these do you share those concerns . Rep. Davis thats the problem, i dont know what is coming out hearings. There are selective leaks coming out of the hearings. Perspective r the of every one of the witnesses. Each witness has their own perspective on what they feel did not happen with the issue that theyre in there giving the deposition about. Want to hear from anybody. Lets open it up. Mean as the Washington Post says, democracy dies in darkness. No way we some an inquiry, lets bring it out to the open. Chairman jerry nadler, i would be pretty upset this is going through the intelligence instead of going through the rightful committee of judiciary. Tough district, the election last time around, on polling has been mixed whether impeachment will play republicans. How do you see it playing out in district . Rep. Davis i dont look at polling. I am in a swing district. Democrats trict that through to elect democrats four terms ago. We have been able to do that by bipartisan member. Im the 50th those bipartisan out of the house of representatives out of 435. I do my job and try and judge issues and judge the votes im going to take based upon the information i have in front of me. The transcript that i have seen in this impeachment dont believe led to any criminal wrongdoing or criminal charges. Im going to do, due process matters, even when you president , he he and every american deserves due process. We should never have a political litmus test on due process. I think thats exactly the areedent that the democrats setting right now. One of the organizations that helps administer election that youll have as the elections system commission, again, this another area where the House Committee has a lot of say, they executive director, a ontroversial figure, but republicans on the committee anted to retain him and ified about a me in this miniscule budget. Rep. Davis they have to Work InstituteBipartisan Committee members. Remember, there was some talk to get rid of the commission dysfunction. He it was fought and not successful, but at the time we with a e to come up bipartisan solution to invest more money into the e. A. C. Going to take for the e. A. C. . Number one its going to take us a bipartisan way on House Administration to get to the bottom with how to fix the on the e. A. C. We had one hearing. That turned into a personnel meeting. The members of the House Administration majority began e. A. C. Ning our commissioners on personnel issues related to the former director. When youre at i hearing in the house of representatives, lets e. A. C. How we make the work instead of sitting there during a public hearing any one ng about individual, that stuff could have tape place at a conference a hearing r than room. So we are no further to fixing e. A. C. Blems at the because our majority hasnt had hearing where we can focus on those problems. The news makerers Program Ranking davis, the member of the House Administration committee, mr. Starks, go ahead. Even if the democrats had been derelict in their hearings, of what would as work to fix the e. A. C. And the administering is hundreds of millions of dollars . Ep. Davis frankly, i like the partnership that the e. A. C. Is having with many state and local officials and also with d. H. S. I would like to see who the new executive director is going to commissioners are going to hire and once they hire that person, i want to see what their plan is. Dont know the ins and outs of the daily operations of the e. A. C. Oversight responsibility. I want to hear from those who are on the ground, who are there what their needs are, what resources they might ask theyre going to implement our directives. Different pletely topic, you voted on rebuking the on the move with turkey and syria. He president has lifted sanctions on turkey. How do you feel about what is there right now . Rep. Davis i dont think it was the right move. It could have some long term consequences in the region. Really frustrate is our nato ed ally, supposed ally turkey. I do not trust them. Have to start the conversation about whether turkey should remain a member of not . Or what should congress do . The u plan to vote for sanctions vote next week . Rep. Davis i would have to take bill, exactly what is in it, look at the amendments. Favor of voting on sanctions for turkey. They are not good allies. Frustrating to many of failurese watching the of the last administration while we were in congress, they turned on the kurds and watched isis grow. Urkey is not helping us and they need to be held accountable. What do you think of the residents comments saying the kurds arent angels, he is critical on the United States ally . Rep. Davis i disagree with him. Allies inare our best the middle east when fighting isis. Getting protection from bashir asaad and russia. A particular vulnerability in Elections Security of astructure or a type attack, what are some of the things that worry you most coming into 2020 . Yes, yes, yes, yes, all of them worry me. About what frustrated me where we are. When we were in charge, again, we actually came together in a and we invested hundreds of millions of dollars o insure that our local officials are working hand in officials and al Homeland Security officials to avoid any potential threats. Our adversaries are always going to try and attack us for what weakest eve is our point. If they cant attack us by going and a Voting SystemRegistration System like they did in my home state of going to find re out pretty quickly, its pretty machine hack a voting in a precinct in rural illinois. Up to the oked internet. We have to be aware, what are they going to do next . Have to have a debate on chain of custody . Where are the ballots going . Ballot harvesting, its a in ess that is illegal states like North Carolina and likely that a republican operative in North Carolina will go to jail for picking up allots, large amount box of ballots and turning them in. I have some problems with that process. Where is the chain of custody of that ballot . Are we sure all of the ballots getting turned in . California ballot harvesting is legal. On ave to have a discussion that chain of custody because hat process can be just as easily disrupted by nefarious actors as cyber secure intrusions. Who do you think the most they naturious actors are . In 2016 as we know. Will they be coming back . China . Rep. Davis all of our adversaries will do anything disrupt the freedoms and liberties we have in this iran andrussia, china, certainly hope none of our perceived allies would do that . State protected . Rep. Davis yes. How so . We have a cyber navigator program, they are working with election cials, local officials in every country are working hand in hand with our Illinois State board of is working hand in hand with the department of Homeland Security. The matter of fact, during last year when secretary neilson was still at d. H. S. , we had a secure briefing. I went up to her immediately after that briefing to talk to efforts. T illinoiss this was before the 2018 elections and she and her ssistant who was in charge of these measures could not talk officials t illinois working with them. Im proud of what we have been illinois. Ccomplish in thats what bipartisan agreements can do. Have been we successful in washington by investing dollars, stops more people aving Work Together to identify intrusions. That doesnt get enough attention out here, the in this we have had arena all right. Of the aid you are one most bipartisan members in the house. A sea of been retirements of members getting d with not anything done across the aisle. Is that a concern of yours . What needs to happen to get more moderates in congress . Rep. Davis its not a coincidence that some of the legislators are lost because theyre in the most even districts. Come in representing their constituency. 5050 re much more of a district. Those are the districts that are the most competitive elections. The dirty secret here in washington is the ones that the get rid ders fight to of the most are the most bipartisan members in most cases. You look ahead at whats the to take is how we change in washington. To make changes congress Work Together better, it takes a willingness of the members. A debate we had yesterday, i stood on the house loor for five hours debating this Election Security bill that the democrats put forth. Colleagues,ny of my but after we were done, you know, you got to still be able across the floor, shake hands and say, hey, we may have issue. Eed on this lets Work Together on finding solutions in the future. Hat means you have to take a personal willingness to want to be bipartisan. Lot of the moderates are the biggest critic of the president. Harder to be a moderate in the trump era and on top of these mean, do criticisms that the president has had of some of your problematic s that with elections moving forward . Are davis i think people making decisions and acting in a ore bipartisan manner because thats who they are and has nothing to do with the president or any administration other previous administration. If the president is upset with isnt publicans, this anything new. My of my democratic colleagues administration would talk about how president obama would have been upset with them on certain votes. Happens. In the end, what weve got to do is find a willingness to Work Together. Look, were in the midst of an impeachment inquiry right now. Can tell you during the last administration, i had republicans come into see me and tell me that there grounds to an impeach president obama. I would go through the evidence, no, there is not. Stop at eft will nothing to impeach president trump. Got to have the same discussions but with the other side. The key is, those of us who believe, who know that we want to get stuff done, we have to be our head down, push good policies forward and hopefully the leadership of both parties will allow us to continue to find those common sense solutions. More question. You talked about the modernization modernization. The Committee Recommended they hould get cybersecurity training. That bill, there is a similar ill to that in the senate that has not been able to get to the floor. Itch mcconnell has other republicans block it. What are the prospects of it law this year . Rep. Davis if we feel this is an issue that needs to be we essed on the house side, dont have to worry about what the senate does. Of e feel and the rest congress feels that we ought to have mandatory cybersecurity it done. Well get we have been able to accomplish that with workplace rights training. Happenre the things that in a bipartisan matter when we house of arge of the representatives in the 115th congress. When you look at impeachment, it sucks all of the energy out of the room. At our last hearing on the modernization. Ask raymond e to we as asked him how members of congress can avoid hat happened during the last impeachment process and actually accomplish many of the things that we talked about at that hearing. E i was hoping ray would be able he learned hings since he was the guy who chaired the last impeachment proceedings 1990s. Late instead ray said avoid impeachment like the plague. Get nothing done. Nothing will be accomplished. The democrats and their lack of since taking s over the house of clearly atives have shown during this impeachment no interest have to work with people like in with solutions. E thank you for being on our week. Kers program this well be right back. Im, lets start with you when it comes to the topic of Election Security, what did we learn from the interview about where we are . Two points that he made that were striking to me. Of using e idea technology, something that is with very controversial Election Security experts. Theyre trying to take things analog. To go there are jurisdictions in the United States, utah is one i believe, West Virginia is that are experimenting with this, well see how it goes. Idea very controversial that he seemed to be willing to somewhat embrace. That he brought up is the issue of being somewhat critical of the members who in that secure facility during impeachment deposition and being willing to be critical of them. That was interesting. There have been a couple who have responded somewhat sheepishly on the g. O. P. Side that that should not have happened. Others have defended it. Kevin mccarthy, one of the top entire in the organization said it was nothing serious. Specific question about the state of our Election Security. Almost everybody agrees with said, were better than we were in 2016, better in 2018 and probably better in 2020. Especially one of the things he did not bring up, but he is on he record for, he is on the record for sending additional funding, a couple hundred to ion perhaps for states get ready for 2020. That needs to happen really soon in the its difficult to middle of an Election Year mprove your election infrastructure. Host same question for you . Democrats arison to on the house floor using phones interesting tobe see if the democrats move on ard with repercussions that front. On impeachment was interesting. He talked about impeachment, members of the body, a lot of things have to be done before the end of this year. Where are they surrounding those things . Some re are definitely priorities. They need past government whether thats going to happen, a shutdown come the end of november, there are a of things that i know both sides would like to tackle. Happen, it t can still remains to be seen. You spoke also about the idea moderate or republican in congress these days, did you get anything from exchange . Obviously we saw a lot of time around. His take on moderate is not being more critical on turn is interesting. Perhaps out of concern, he could have come out and had Harsh Criticism of the president. That was interesting. His defense of what trump has said about republicans who him, that defense was fairly novel because i dont in private hearing calling critics human scum. Point was interesting. 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