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Washington, DC – This week, France announced plans to phase out equipment by Chinese telecommunications provider Huawei from its networks, marking the latest action in a growing global sentiment to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable as it stops at nothing to become the world’s economic leader by 2049.

As the United States continues to take steps to ensure leadership in wireless and emerging technologies – and show bad actors like China there will be consequences for bad behavior – other countries have taken notice and followed suit. Last...

Washington, D.C. – This week, members of the Energy and Commerce Committee heard directly from representatives of five companies developing a COVID-19 vaccine at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing. The drug manufacturers represented were AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna, and Pfizer.

These were the witnesses:

Mene Pangalos, Executive Vice President, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca
Macaya Douoguih, Head of Clinical Development and Medical Affairs, Janssen Vaccines, Johnson & Johnson
Julie Gerberding, Executive Vice President and Chief Patient Officer, Merck
Stephen Hoge, President, Moderna
John Young, Chief Business Officer, Pfizer

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Washington, DC – As Americans rely on technologies for much of their daily lives during COVID-19, it’s more important than ever to ensure the safety and security of consumers’ personal information online.

During today’s Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing, Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), called out Democrats for instead introducing partisan bills after good-faith negotiations for a bipartisan online privacy agreement this year.

“Data privacy is the most fundamental consumer protection we could advance, and we should right now be working together,” Rodgers said in her opening...