March 26, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 52 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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                             Mueller Report

  Madam President, now there is one final matter. Yesterday, I came to 
the floor and asked unanimous consent on a very simple matter--that the 
report completed by Special Counsel Mueller and all of the 
corresponding evidence and documentation be made publicly available for 
the American people.
  There was a request, above all, to achieve the greatest level of 
transparency possible into the very serious matters of Russian 
interference in our elections. Transparency--that is all we want.
  I am hardly alone. It is the same resolution that passed the House 
unanimously, with the President's strongest defenders voting for it. 
They want transparency.
  Why has Leader McConnell objected to making the report public? What 
in the world is he hiding? He got up and objected when we asked to make 
it public. If he had not gotten up, it would have passed.
  President Trump has called for the report to be made public. So why 
is the leader, the Republican leader, blocking all attempts at 
transparency? There is no conceivable reason for the Mueller report to 
remain hidden from public view. It is a shame--a darn shame--that 
Leader McConnell thinks otherwise.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kansas.