Senate Democrats seek to leverage Mueller hearing, press for election-security action

Promising to “fan out across the country” like “election-security Paul Reveres,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and other Senate Democrats today said they would spend the upcoming August recess trying to increase pressure on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to allow debate on election-security legislation.

With former special counsel Robert Mueller scheduled to testify Wednesday before two committees on Russian interference in the 2016 election, Senate Democrats said they would introduce a measure tracking with the SAFE Act election-security bill ...