I commend members of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, in particular Chairman Mike Gallagher and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi, for their partnership on this legislation to address the immediate threat that ByteDance ownership of TikTok poses.

The Protecting Americans' Data from Foreign Adversaries Act is crucial for our national security.

This is a targeted approach to prohibit access to an application owned by a foreign adversary that poses a clear threat to U.S. national security.

TikTok's access to 170 million American users makes it a valuable propaganda tool for the CCP to exploit and use for nefarious purposes.

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.

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.

Protecting Americans' data and addressing the serious national security threat posed by the CCP have been my top priorities all Congress.

The Chinese Communist Party pose the greatest national security threat to the United States of our time.

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

I move that the committee do now recess and reconvene in executive session based on our determination that the disclosure of matters that need to be considered during this hearing would (1) endanger national security and (2) compromise sensitive law enforcement information.