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“Big Tech is crushing competition and crushing conservative speech. H.R. 3843 contains three important measures that will help America with Big Tech. The first gives State attorneys general the ability to file their lawsuits and keep those lawsuits in their States. The 48 State attorneys general have asked Congress to move this bill forward. It received broad bipartisan support in the Committee on the Judiciary. The second is a bill that Senator Hawley and our colleague, Congressman Fitzgerald, have supported. It basically prohibits China from buying small high-tech companies so that they can steal our innovation. The third bill that is combined with H.R. 3843 raises filing fees. Make no mistake, there are controls on these filing fees. They have to be appropriated for the FTC by the Appropriations Committee. That is a control. The Appropriations Committee, I hope, will be under Republican control in the next Congress, and it will be controlled so that nobody in the FTC is using these funds in an inappropriate way, other than reviewing the mergers at issue. Mr. Speaker, my friend Senator Cruz has said it absolutely correctly: The greatest threat to democracy in this country is Big Tech. Senator Lee, Senator Cotton, and Senator Grassley support the House version of this bill because it is a conservative bill, a bipartisan bill, and a bill that will help America deal with Big Tech. I hope my colleagues will support H.R. 3843. Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr.…”