Americas elections. I will now recognize myself when Opening Statement. Yesterday the director of National Intelligence testified that, quote, the greatest challenge we have as a nation is making sure to maintain the integrity of our election system come close quote. Excuse me. I agree. Our democracy was founded on a government elected by the people, for the people and free and fair elections. They are elections very core of our democracy under a aa tactic special counsel most report in no Uncertain Terms detailed how reform government attack on her 2016 elections. The russian objectives were clear, deep in distress and discord in a society come secure the election of one candidate of president over the other, and in so doing undermined confidence in the integrity of our elections and damaged our nations standing in the world. There is no evidence russian affected the actual vote count of our elections but russia did successfully steal thousands of documents from american citizens that
Of election infrastructure used in federal elections. Aging equipment, underresourced jurisdictions, and the interference by foreign entities or nonstate actors leaves the system vulnerable to exploitation that can undermine confidence in Election Outcomes and ineffective and vulnerable equipment can also discourage participation in federal elections. It comes to the floor after the committee on House Administration held three hearings in the First Six Months of this year that addressed the integrity of our elections. In february, the Committee Held the for the people, our american democracy hearing, where the integrity of our democracy, including critical steps to improve the security and reliability of our election infrastructure was addressed. On may 8, the Committee Held an Election Security hearing where we heard testimony about the urgent need to upgrade election infrastructure and the lack of ongoing investment in the wake of new threats. On may 21, the Committee Held an oversig
Reaction towo, your the Second Democratic debate. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. June 27, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable Veronica Escobar to act as speaker pro tempore on this at this. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Od, you reated us endowed with freedom. We give you thanks for giving us another day. As Congress Heads into a recess to celebrate the fourth of july, Americas National holiday, may all citizens be mindful of the wonder of our nations inception. Men and women of good will from various backgrounds and se
Authorized to declare a recess at any time. Pursuant to Committee Rule 4 and 2h of rule 11 the chair may postponefurther proceedings today when a recorded vote is ordered on the question of approving a measure on adopting the amendment. Ms. Lofgren we will consider the securing americas federal election act, a targeted bill to modernize our nations infrastructure and respond to the ongoing attacks in our democracy. As we all should know and appreciate, our country suffered as special counsel mueller said, multiple system attic efforts to interfere in our election in the 2016 president ial election. When outsiders medical in our elections, its an attack in our country and cannot be staged to defend against the sophisticated cyberattacks of state actors on their own. While we have made modest progress to bolster our defenses, it is clear from our Intelligence Community and host of independent experts from across the political spectrum that more must be done. Our state and local governmen
At 6 00 p. M. , the number of pilgrims registered for arbaeen exceeded one million people, according to the secretary of the arbaeen central headquarters registration and dispatch committee, until this morning, more than 1,150,000 people confirmed their registration by paying insurance in the sama system , mr. Mohammadi added. In order to benefit from the facilities of arbaeen and zahras pilgrimage passport, they must have paid the insurance. The head of the Environmental Protection organization said that the plan to plant a sapling by the hand of each arbaeen pilgrim is from farhadi of this organization. Every pilgrim can in a way, some of us will transfer the species, but in this route, according to the climatic conditions, work should be done by the pilgrim himself, the work should be done with the client , fortunately, it is completely on the way, and culture building is done, so that every creature in that area represents the environment, and this part will be discussed with the m