Mike Gallagher: “The COVID-19 pandemic has upended and altered the way we live, the way we work, and the way we govern.”

Congressman Gallagher, chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, said that he felt that ports were doing what they needed to do to mitigate potential risk only in the short term.

Now it's 2 months later--that would be 10 percent of the way through the 18-month timeline--and this subcommittee, the Armed Services Committee more broadly, and industry, I would argue, including small and medium-sized innovative…

TikTok is a threat to our national security because it is owned by ByteDance, which does the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party. We know this because ByteDance leadership says so and because Chinese law requires it. This bill…

That is unacceptable.