U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik said she believes Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s remarks at a brief news conference on Wednesday demonstrate the need to pass bills to strengthen election security, and she does not support calls for impeaching President Donald Trump.
Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, said Mueller summarized the findings of the report, which she has read, and she said she believes it is important to discuss its conclusions.
“This was a systemic action from Russia to undermine our election and need to be taken seriously moving forward,” she said following a roundtable at the Save the River nonprofit in Clayton, in Jefferson County, to discuss high-water levels.
Stefanik has previously called for creating an election czar to oversee elections. She also has sponsored legislation requiring online political advertisements to contain the same disclosure of who paid for them as television and radio advertisement and to prohibit foreign money from being contributed to U.S. political campaigns.
Also, she said technology companies have a role to play.
“We need to make sure tech companies are stepping up to the plate and rooting out misinformation online, not allowing foreign dollars to be spent. That’s what I’m focused on going into 2020,” she said.
Stefanik also released a statement highlighting her previous remarks on the subject of the Mueller report indicating her support of the investigation and calls for the report to be released to the public. She said that Attorney General William Barr, and Mueller, have been clear that the report speaks for itself and “was completed with a high degree of transparency, no executive privilege, limited redactions and resulted in a report of no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.”
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