Overseeing the administration of federal elections. And todays hearing will help us to fill the responsibility by providing an opportunity to hear from the vendors of most of our countrys Voting Systems. This is the first time the ceos of the three major vendors have appeared together in a congressional hearing. The companies they represent provide at least 80 of the estimated 350,000 Voting Machines in use today reaching over 100 million registered voters. However, despite their outsized role and the mechanics of our democracy, some have accused these companies of or f other suggest theres an insufficient regulatory structure for the sector. In the committees may 2019 hearing on Election Security, Lawrence Norden wrote in his testimony, i quote, there are more federal regulations for ballpoint pens and magic markers than there are for Voting Systems and other parts of our election infrastructure. So there may be more work to do and much for congress to learn about this industry. Many
Next, officials from the fai Justice Department, Homeland Security, and u. S. Election Assistance Commission testify on election infrastructure security. And how each agency is working to protect voting systems and coordinat coordinate with state and local officials. This house judiciary hearing runs about 2 1 2 hours. On judiy welcomthe judiciarywill come to. Without objection, the chair is authorized to house subcommittee on the judiciary will come to order, without objection. The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on securing americas elections part two, oversight of Government Agencies. I will now 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 been jointly selected by the committee testified unequivocally that our nations elections are under attack. Deborah plunket, former
How is everybody doing . Really appreciate the opportunity. Thank you fran for the kind introduction. Great to see you and also want to thank the council on foreign releases for the opportunity to be with you today and have an important discussion on the state of Border Security and immigration concerns, nationalry but also hopefully fran well have the opportunity to have conversation and dialogue on some of the other Homeland Security priorities and with the members here. I know that many of you have been following the crisis on our southwest border over the past year. And tracking really the growing regional challenge of irregular migration in the region. Not only has the situation had obvious implications for Border Security. But its led to really a significant humanitarian crisis as well as a Foreign Policy challenge in the United States and throughout the region. Id like to take the thog today a little bit of above the headlines and the daily news cycle and kind of look back at ch
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Relations for the opportunity to be with you today and have an important discussion on the state of Homeland Security and immigration. Also to have a dialog and also on Homeland Security priorities with members. Here i know that many of you have been following crisis on our border last year and tracking the regular challenge of migration, not only has the situation obvious implications for Border Security but its lead to significant humanitarian crisis as well as a Foreign Policy challenge in the United States and throughout the region. I like to take the dialog today a little bit above the headlines and into the daily news cycle and look back the challenges over the last ten months or so, in our efforts to address them especially focused on the last three to four months during that tenure as acting secretary. I took it on five a half months ago and taken momentum and progress to deal with this crisis in the last three or four. For us here for our audience i dont believe its too contro