The committee on Homeland Security will be in order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Free and Fair Elections are the bedrock of our democracy. As we learned just over 18 months ago, democracy is not something we can take for granted. We must defend it fiercely and protect the institutions that uphold it. So i commend chairman thompson a for allowing this hearing. When i was first eligible to vote in two 1006 election officers were in the process of replacing of the structure. Social media was new and largely a way for Young College kids to connect it our adversaries had not figured out how to weaponize our freedom of speech or technological ingenuity and use it against us. The notion that an armed crowd would descend upon the United States Capitol Building and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power would have been be on anyones wildest imagination. And harassing Election Officials or alter an election result was
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