Cathy McMorris Rodgers: “I appreciate your leadership, your commitment to making our economy more efficient, more sustainable. It is essential.”

This bill sets forth a process to incentivize the divesture of TikTok and other applications from the operation and control of foreign adversary governments.

TikTok has repeatedly been caught lying about its connection to ByteDance as well as the level of access the CCP has to our data.

I am appreciative of Ranking Member Pallone bringing this legislation forward so that we may establish clear prohibitions on the sale of location and health information to our adversaries.

I firmly believe that we must do what we can now to safeguard Americans' personal data while we work to advance privacy legislation.