Representative Brad Schneider is convinced that Russia will be back next year to attempt to interfere with American elections.
“The ongoing threat to the integrity of our elections is real and only likely to increase is 2018,” he said during a speech on the House floor, The Hill reported.
According to Schneider, Congress and the Department of Justice should collaborate to implement measures to protect the election systems of United States. The Representative also called the lack of movement from the Trump administration thus far unacceptable. He warned that the clock “is quite literally ticking” and added that midterm elections are supposed to happen in less than a year.
Schneider is a member of the House Judiciary Committee, one of the several congressional committees that are investigating the alleged Russian meddling in last year’s presidential election and the alleged connection between Trump campaign and Russians. The Democrat said that he was disappointed from the recent testimony from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney Genera Rod Rosenstein, both of which recently testified in front of the committee.
“This is not a partisan issue. The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections,” Schneider said.
In the meantime, Democratic Representative Maxine Waters tore into Trump and Republicans in Congress for questioning the integrity of the special counsel’s investigation, The Hill reported. According to Waters, Republicans’ attacks on Mueller’s team reveal the desperation to stop the probe.
“We don’t know everything that’s in this plot, except that they’re trying to stop this investigation. This president does not want it to go forward and we can not help but ask: Why? What is he afraid of? If he has not been involved with collusion, if he has not been involved in obstruction of justice, if he has not been involved in money laundering, if he doesn’t have a plot to lift the sanctions working with the Kremlin, and the oligarchs of Russia, [then] what is he afraid of?” she asked while speaking on “All In with Chris Hayes.”
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