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Washington, D.C. – Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) joined Spicer & Co. to discuss online censorship by big tech companies and the need to change Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 25-year-old law that provides these giants tremendous liability protections.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee today and before the Senate Judiciary Committee in November. Despite numerous calls by E&C Republicans to hold these big tech companies accountable, E&C...

Washington, DC – Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), a former radio station owner in rural Oregon, penned an op-ed for The Hill outlining the importance of promoting diversity and new voices into local broadcast media ownership and his bill, the Broadcast Diversity in Leadership Act, to create a broadcast incubator program to encourage continued diversity and growth of local broadcast media ownership.

You can read the full piece in The Hill here and catch a few highlights below.

The Hill

Local broadcast media ownership should reflect...

Washington, D.C. – This week, in an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing with public health experts, the Energy and Commerce Committee continued oversight of the development and safety of potential COVID-19 vaccines. This follows the hearing the subcommittee held on COVID-19 vaccines with drug manufacturers and other aggressive oversight work through the pandemic.

These were the witnesses:

Helene Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., Co-Chair, Committee on Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Ashish K. Jha, Dean, M.D., M.P.H., Dean, School of...