Brett Guthrie: “Make no mistake. This is not a negotiation. This is government price setting.”

We’re not competing with Europe to regulate. We’re competing with China to regulate.

And so you can do both: you can protect local ratepayers and you can make sure we beat China, which is the No. 1 priority.

I hope he recovers. He’s been a mentor of mine and a friend of mine since I ran for the state Senate a few years ago. And so my thoughts and prayers are with him.

It is an important milestone — not a finish line — in the effort to better protect children online.