Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I thank Chair McMorris Rodgers and Ranking Member Pallone for their extraordinary leadership in protecting our privacy and our data privacy. I thank them for their excellent leadership in helping to pass legislation last week that is going to force ByteDance to sell TikTok precisely because the CCP can access Americans' sensitive data under its current ownership. This bill is extremely, extremely important. Why? It is important because it prevents our foreign adversaries from buying American data through other sources. Right now, so-called data brokers can sell Americans' sensitive data in bulk, including internet browsing history and geolocation data, and they can resell it to foreign adversaries who can then target military personnel, public officials, and others. This bill addresses this national security threat head-on by prohibiting data brokers from selling our data to foreign adversaries. It is an excellent complement to the bill that we passed just last week with regard to ByteDance, TikTok, and foreign adversary-owned social media applications. This bill needs to pass, and it needs to pass now. Madam Speaker, I am so proud to strongly support H.R. 7520, and I ask all of my colleagues to unanimously pass this bill today.”