{"id":17478,"date":"2019-06-03T23:55:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T06:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=17478"},"modified":"2019-06-03T23:55:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T06:55:30","slug":"senate-to-receive-election-security-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=17478","title":{"rendered":"Senate to receive election security briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the Senate will get an election security briefing, after weeks of public clamoring for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to agree to the demand.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer, speaking from the Senate floor, indicated that the Senate GOP leader had agreed to his weeks-long call for an all senators to receive a briefing in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have some positive news. I have spoken to the Republican leader about that request. He has assured me, we will have a briefing,&#8221; Schumer said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he and McConnell were still ironing out the timing of when the Senate briefing would take place but urged the GOP leader to hold it within weeks &#8212; before the Senate&#8217;s current work period runs out at the end of June.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesmen for McConnell didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The closed-door briefing comes as senators have mounted a bipartisan push in the wake of Mueller&#8217;s report to try to move election security through the Senate, but have run into high-profile opposition from McConnell and Rules Committee Chairman Roy Blunt (R-Mo.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17479,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17478\/revisions\/17479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}