House and Senate Democrats used Mueller's pending testimony to launch a full-scale assault on Mitch McConnell for his ongoing efforts to block election security legislation
House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday used the pending testimony from former special counsel Robert Mueller to launch a full-scale assault on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over his ongoing efforts to block congressional efforts to pass election security legislation.
When it comes to election security, McConnell “is not afraid of the Russians. He's afraid of the United States Senate, a Republican-controlled Senate,” according to Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin . By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time.
But McConnell has argued that Washington doesn’t need to take further action to shore up the nation’s election systems ahead of next year’s presidential vote. Earlier this month, he dismissed the need for a classified meeting on the issue before senior Trump administration officials briefed lawmakers on election security efforts. He has also accused Democrats of making election security a political issue.
But now “that’s piling up on the Senate side against the door that Mitch McConnell has barred when it comes to protecting our democracy,” Sarbanes said, noting that last month the House passed a Democrat-backed bill that would require election systems to use voter-verified paper ballots.
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