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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsi wonder what nlackmail evidence foreign goverments have against her
or maybe shes just a traitor...
https://www.rawstory.com/marsha-blackburn-stops-election-protection/
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i wonder what nlackmail evidence foreign goverments have against her (Original Post)
moonshinegnomie
Aug 2022
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onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)1. They're not the majority how is she blocking bills?
moonshinegnomie
(2,445 posts)2. unanimous consent.
any single senator can block a bill at least for a little while. this makes it have to go thru the whole fillibuster nonsense.
onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)3. She can't block it from passing. She can only delay.
niyad
(113,302 posts)4. You are allowed to quote 4 paragraphs. Some here will not go to that site.
crickets
(25,976 posts)5. Story from Axios:
https://www.axios.com/2020/02/11/gop-senator-election-security-blocks
eta: important point made in the Rawstory article, not included at Axios:
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday blocked an attempt by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) to pass three election security-related bills via "unanimous consent," calling them a "federal power grab."
Why it matters: Just last week, the third volume of a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report found that the U.S. government was "not well-postured" to counter Russian interference in 2016. The Democratic-controlled House passed several election security bills last year, but none have been taken up by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
The big picture: Intelligence officials have continued to sound the alarm about the threat of foreign interference in future elections, with FBI director Christopher Wray warning last week that Russia continues to be engaged in "information warfare" ahead of the 2020 elections. [snip]
What they're saying: "[Democrats] are attempting to bypass this bodys Rules Committee on behalf of various bills that will seize control over elections from the states and take it from the states and where do they want to put it?" Blackburn said. "They want it to rest in the hands of Washington, D.C., bureaucrats." [more]
Why it matters: Just last week, the third volume of a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report found that the U.S. government was "not well-postured" to counter Russian interference in 2016. The Democratic-controlled House passed several election security bills last year, but none have been taken up by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
The big picture: Intelligence officials have continued to sound the alarm about the threat of foreign interference in future elections, with FBI director Christopher Wray warning last week that Russia continues to be engaged in "information warfare" ahead of the 2020 elections. [snip]
What they're saying: "[Democrats] are attempting to bypass this bodys Rules Committee on behalf of various bills that will seize control over elections from the states and take it from the states and where do they want to put it?" Blackburn said. "They want it to rest in the hands of Washington, D.C., bureaucrats." [more]
eta: important point made in the Rawstory article, not included at Axios:
Most state and local election offices don't have the staff or resources available to protect against international hackers or foreign spies.
moonshinegnomie
(2,445 posts)6. What's wrong with that site?
niyad
(113,302 posts)7. It is frequently indistinguishable from a tabloid, it sucks at fact-checking, or
acknowledging errors, published a lot of misinformation about CoViD, and apparenttly had more than a few russiaan bots during the 2016 campaign. It does, however, occasionally get things correct.