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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, DC – Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) this week joined U.S. Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA), Natural Resources Committee Republican Leader Rob Bishop (R-UT), Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Republican Leader Sam Graves (R-MO), and House Republican Leadership to introduce a bill aiming to provide much-needed updates to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

The Building U.S. Infrastructure through Limited Delays and Efficient Reviews (BUILDER) Act (H.R. 8333) aims to streamline the lengthy, burdensome NEPA permitting process to help more quickly deploy updated infrastructure across...

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) reintroduced the Safely Ensuring Lives Future Deployment and Research in Vehicle Evolution (SELF DRIVE) Act. This bill creates a much-needed federal framework to help the U.S. deploy autonomous vehicles (AVs).

While the benefits of AVs for American consumers – improving roadway safety, supporting self-sufficiency for seniors and those with disabilities, and more – were known well before COVID-19, the pandemic has proven another important benefit: contactless deliveries. We’ve seen AVs being put to work to...