Americans election part two oversight of Government Agencies. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Last month this Committee Held apart one of the series of hearings on securing americas elections. In that hearing, three witnesses have been jointly selected by the committee testified unequivocally that the nations elections are under attack. The former director on the National Security council under both president clinton and president george w. Bush warned we must take bold, decisive and expeditious steps to address the cyber threats. We must treat elections activity as an imperative for safeguarding our democracy. Secretary of state from the commonwealth of pennsylvania and moderated elections activity is a race without a finish line and our adversaries are not slowing down. This testimony has been confirmed by the leaders of our Intelligence Community. Last month the director of National Intelligence testified about the foreign actors wouldve viewed by 2020 u. S. El
Americas elections. I will now recognize myself when Opening Statement. Yesterday the director of National Intelligence testified that, quote, the greatest challenge we have as a nation is making sure to maintain the integrity of our election system come close quote. Excuse me. I agree. Our democracy was founded on a government elected by the people, for the people and free and fair elections. They are elections very core of our democracy under a aa tactic special counsel most report in no Uncertain Terms detailed how reform government attack on her 2016 elections. The russian objectives were clear, deep in distress and discord in a society come secure the election of one candidate of president over the other, and in so doing undermined confidence in the integrity of our elections and damaged our nations standing in the world. There is no evidence russian affected the actual vote count of our elections but russia did successfully steal thousands of documents from american citizens that
The House Committee will come to order without objection. To chair is authorized declare recesses at any time. Welcome everyone to this hearing on securing americas election, oversight of government agency. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Last month, this Committee Held part one of a series of hearings on securing americas elections. In that hearing, three witnesses who had jointly been chosen testified that our nations elections are under attack. The former director of the National Security council under both president clinton and george w. Bush warned that we must take hold and expeditious steps to address cyber threats. We must treat Election Security theecretary of state from commonwealth of pennsylvania elaborated. Election security is a race without a finish line line and our adversaries are not going down. This testimony has been confirmed by the leaders of our Intelligence Community. Foreign actors will view the 2020 election as an opportunity to review their
Yesterday, the director of National Intelligence testified that, quote, the greatest challenge we have as a nation is making sure to maintain the integrity of our election system. Closed quote. Excuse me. I agree. Our democracy was founded on a government elected by the people, for the people and free and fair elections. Today our elections, the very core of our democracy, are under attack. Special counsel muellers report in no Uncertain Terms details our Foreign Government attacked our 2016 election is, the russians objections were clear, secure the election of one candidate of president over another and undermining confidence in the sbrintegritief our elections. Theres no evidence that russia affected the actual vote count of our elections but russia did steal thousands of documents from american citizens that it used to influence public opinion. It also accessed voter data and gained other valuable intelligence which it may seek to exploit in the future. In short, as special counsel
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