.MaddowBlog: Senate Majority Leader McConnell stands in the way of bipartisan election-security safeguards.
The House Democratic majority has had quite a bit of success in recent months advancing many of its top legislative priorities, though the leadership clearly has plenty of additional work to do. Up next is legislation intended to “safeguard our democracy from future attacks.”
The New York Times reported this week, however, that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has effectively become a “one-man roadblock” on the issue. Another bipartisan Senate proposal would codify cyberinformation-sharing initiatives between federal intelligence services and state election officials, speed up the granting of security clearances to state officials and provide federal incentives for states to adopt paper ballots.During a hearing last month, Senate Rules Committee Chairman Roy Blunt conceded that election-security legislation can’t move forward because the majority leader insists that the debate “reaches no conclusion.
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