{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-remarks-calling-for-senate-select-committee-to-investigate-russian-interference-in-2016-elections", "SCHUMER REMARKS CALLING FOR SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN 2016 ELECTIONS", "2016-12-18", "2016", "2016-12", "Democrat", "House", "NY", "Charles Schumer", "S000148", "www.schumer.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.18.16\n\t\t\t SCHUMER REMARKS CALLING FOR SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN 2016 ELECTIONS \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tPlease see below for a transcript of Sen. Schumer\u2019s remarks this morning in New York City calling for a Senate Select Committee to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election:\r\n\u201cAs the days and weeks go forward, it\u2019s clearer and clearer that the Russians hacked our cyber system with the intent of influencing the election. Whether it actually had an effect that will be for the political scientists to determine. But it sure should raise the hackles of every American. The fact that the Russians used cyber security to hack our infrastructure, our economics, our countries is well known. The fact that they\u2019re hacking our political system and trying to influence the outcome as it seems to be: that is serious, serious stuff.\r\n\u201cSo last week, here, four senators put out a letter saying we ought to investigate. Today the four of us\u2014Graham, McCain, Republicans, Jack reed and I, Democrats are calling for the next step: special senate investigative committee on government hacking of our elections and other areas. A special select committee that will focus on other foreign governments: Russia, but also China and Iran, and their hacking our political system as well as our economic infrastructure and social system.\r\n\u201cNow, leader McConnell has said let the intelligence committee do this alone. That is not good enough for three reasons.\r\n\u201cFirst, there are conflicting jurisdictions. The Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over the FBI. The Foreign Affairs Committee has jurisdiction over foreign policy. The Armed Services Committee has jurisdiction over hacking of the military. And the Intelligence Committee of course has jurisdiction over the CIA. With all these conflicting jurisdictions, if we don\u2019t have one select committee\u2014first, things could be left out. There could be holes that no committee covers.\r\n\u201cSecond, we could get contradictory information. The FBI says this and the CIA says that, and they\u2019re not reconciled.\r\n\u201cAnd, third the existing committees are very, very busy. This is a new administration and they\u2019re going to have to spend time vetting nominees and going to have to look at President-elect Trump\u2019s new proposals. A select committee whose only focus is to get to the bottom of this is what is called for. So the four of us\u2014two Democrats and two Republicans are calling for this.\r\n\u201cWe don\u2019t want this investigation to be political like the Benghazi investigation. We don\u2019t want it to just be finger pointing at one person or another. We want to find out what the Russians are doing to our political system and what other foreign governments might do to our political system. And then figure out a way to stop it. Only a select committee can do it. The four of us feel very strongly about it. To send it just to one committee or a multiplicity of committees will leave things out, won\u2019t reconcile contradictory information and because the existing committees are so busy in the new administration won\u2019t get the focus that It needs.\u201d\r\n-- U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer \u00a0\u00a0\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t  \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n    \n    \n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article\n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tNext Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-remarks-calling-for-senate-select-committee-to-investigate-russian-interference-in-2016-elections"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7914371564984322, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}