Political Quotes

“I rise today to speak about TikTok, which I think all people here know that we have been having a lot of attention about--a lot of debate, a lot of discussion, and a lot of action by the Supreme Court. But now I think people are getting a little clouded on the path forward. I want to be clear that, last year, the U.S. Congress passed a law requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok. The law requires that sale to shut down all government back doors by the Chinese or attempts by them to influence the algorithms that could affect U.S. citizens or the U.S. military. It requires that sale to end the Chinese Government's influence over TikTok's content recommendation algorithms. This law also requires that data sharing with the Chinese Government must end. I was glad to see that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld that law. Why? Because we asked them whether Congress had the ability to act in this national interest and to pass this law, and they upheld it. Congress and the courts acted for a reason--to address real national security threats to our country and to the American people. When President Trump issued his 2020 Executive order, he recognized that TikTok collected vast amounts of data on U.S. citizens. A House resolution, H. Res. 1051, introduced by the leadership of the House Select Committee on China and Congressman Gallagher and Congressman Krishnamoorthi sets out the threat citing from the U.S.…”