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ADVISORY: E&C Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers Announces Republican Forum on President Biden’s Cancellation of the Keystone XL Pipeline

03.30.2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Energy & Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced today that Rep. David B. McKinley (R-WV), Republican Leader for the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee, will host a forum entitled “President Biden’s Cancellation of the Keystone XL Pipeline and American Jobs” on Tuesday, April 13, at 4:30 PM ET.

The Forum will feature a discussion about the impacts of President Biden’s executive order cancelling the Keystone XL Pipeline on his first day in office, including the American jobs lost, the economic revenue lost, and the...

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Republican Lawmakers Ask Big Tech for Information About Their Effect on the Mental Health of Children

03.30.2021

Washington, D.C. — Following the Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with Big Tech CEOs on March 25, 2021, Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Republican Subcommittee Leader for Communications and Technology Bob Latta, Republican Subcommittee Leader for Consumer Protection and Commerce Gus Bilirakis, and Republican Subcommittee Leader for Oversight and Investigations Morgan Griffith issued letters to Big Tech CEOs today requesting information regarding internal research or studies conducted by the companies to better understand their product’s effect on children’s mental...

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Bilirakis: Big Tech Has an Obligation to be Stewards of Their Platform

03.25.2021

Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader for Consumer Protection and Commerce Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) delivered opening remarks at today’s subcommittee hearing on how Big Tech has failed to be responsible stewards of their platforms and has lost the trust of Americans.

Excerpts and highlights from his remarks:

SECTION 230 WAS MEANT TO PROTECT OUR SOCIETY

“Thank you for participating in today’s hearing. I have been thinking about this hearing since our side first requested it last year.

“My time in Congress has provided me enough knowledge about the history of...

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Latta: Big Tech Abuses Its Power

03.25.2021

Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader for Communications and Technology Subcommittee Bob Latta (R-OH) delivered opening remarks at today’s joint subcommittee hearing on how Big Tech has failed to be responsible stewards of their platforms and has lost the trust of Americans.

Excerpts and highlights from his remarks:

BIG TECH USES SECTION 230 TO SHIELD THEIR OPERATIONS FROM AMERICANS

"I am deeply concerned by your decisions to operate your companies in a vague and biased manner, with little to no accountability, while using Section 230 as a shield for...

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Rodgers to Big Tech: Your Platforms are My Biggest Fear as a Parent

03.25.2021

Washington, D.C. — Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks today in a joint virtual hearing with the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce. The joint hearing was with Big Tech companies, Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

Leader Rodgers told Big Tech their platforms are her biggest fear as a parent. At the beginning of this year, Leader Rodgers introduced the Big Tech Accountability Platform. A key priority in this platform is to...

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Rodgers: The CLEAN Future Act Will Not Build American Prosperity

03.24.2021

Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered opening remarks at Wednesday’s Energy Subcommittee hearing about the need for a diverse and reliable energy base.

Excerpts and highlights from her prepared remarks:

TEXAS & OTHER EMERGENCIES

“One of our most important jobs is to make sure our federal laws and policies will enable, not disable—the affordable and reliable delivery of energy and power.

“Keeping the lights on is vital to health and safety.

“We saw the heart-wrenching devastation when this goes wrong last month in Texas and surrounding...

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Bipartisan E&C Leaders Call on Internet Providers to Raise Awareness of Emergency Broadband Benefit

03.24.2021

Washington, D.C. — Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) wrote to nine internet service providers (ISPs) and several trade associations today urging them to participate in and help make consumers aware of the newly created Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) Program, which will help struggling Americans afford high-speed internet. The $3.2 billion program was created as part of the final omnibus appropriations bill in December and...

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Rodgers: America Needs a Diverse Energy Base To Ensure Grid Resiliency

03.24.2021

Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered opening remarks at Wednesday’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing about the need for a diverse and reliable energy base.

Excerpts and highlights from her prepared remarks:

“I want to express my sorrow to all the families and friends who lost loved ones during this terrible event.

“It’s my hope that we focus on solutions today so this tragedy never happens again—not just in Texas but other states with dangerous energy reliability problems too.”

GRID RESILIENCY

“There should be a full...

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