Mike Gallagher: “We lose our ability to exercise our oversight responsibility with executive branch officials and private sector…”

I thank the gentleman for yielding. It is fitting, at least for me, that we are debating this today because one of the very first bills I got passed as a freshman Member of Congress working across the aisle with my fellow classmate…

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 a concerning trend.

The hearing really seeks to answer two fundamental questions: What is Replicator and can it work, how can it work?