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“Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting H.R. 7521, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, a bipartisan bill introduced by our colleagues Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi. It is aimed at countering the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to sway public opinion in its favor--especially that of the younger generation--through the use of the social media app TikTok, as well as to counter the use of the app to collect data on Americans. Indeed, just this last week we saw a real time demonstration of the insidious use of TikTok: the targeting of American children with Communist Party propaganda--during school hours--and the recruiting of minors to act unwittingly as foreign agents of the Chinese Communist Party. On March 7, members of Congress--including me--were inundated with a phone call advocacy campaign that utilized children while we were debating the efforts of the CCP to sabotage the American economy. And the CCP connection with TikTok and its Chinese parent is something that is very tangible. TikTok's parent ByteDance, headquartered in Bejing, is compelled to participate in a strategic partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security. Indeed, under China's Cybersecurity Law, companies are required to provide any information asked for to police or intelligence agencies. One former ByteDance official, Yintao Yu, has said that the CCP has access to all the company's data--including data stored in the U.S.…”