LARSON: It Is Incomprehensible To Me That The GOP Would Not Vote For An Independent Investigation Into Russia

Washington, D.C. - "It is incomprehensible to me that after a foreign power attacks our country, in what former Vice-President Dick Cheney has said could be construed as an ‘act of war', that my Republican colleagues would vote no, on an bipartisan, independent, 9/11-style commission to investigate the Russian government's interference in our election," said Larson. "I am saddened to think that my Republican colleagues have put partisan politics ahead of something as fundamental to our democracy and all that we stand for as the electoral process of the nation."

Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) issued this statement after House Republicans voted against a motion today to bring to the floor for consideration the Protecting Our Democracy Act (H.R. 356), which would establish an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate interference in the 2016 election by Russia or any other foreign entity. Larson is an original cosponsor of H.R. 356 along with the rest of the Connecticut House delegation.