It heads to the Senate next, where it already enjoys the support of Senate Intel Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) and Vice Chair Marco Rubio (R-FL).
"We were encouraged by today’s strong bipartisan vote... and look forward to working together to get this bill passed through the Senate and signed into law," the pair said in a statement
."Some of us are concerned that there are First Amendment implications here. Americans have the right to view information, and don't need to be protected by the government from information."
This week the House will hold a vote on a bipartisan bill that would prevent the social media app TikTok from appearing in app stores unless it's able to be "fully divested" from Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance.
Following a unanimous vote on March 7, The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (H.R.7521) advanced from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and will now receive a full vote on Wednesday at around 10 a.m. according to Reuters.
The bill was introduced on March 5 by 19 members of the House Select Committee on the CCP - including Chair Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL).
The bill also has the support of President Biden, who said "I'll sign it" if Congress puts it on his desk.
Trojan Horse?
The rushed bill, seemingly out of nowhere - and just weeks after the Biden campaign made a TikTok account (and posted to it) on Super Bowl Sunday, has raised concerns over government overreach.
On Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) noted on X, "The so-called TikTok ban is a trojan horse" that would give the President the power to "ban WEB SITES," not just apps.
"If you think this isn’t a Trojan horse and will only apply to TikTok and foreign-adversary social media companies, then contemplate why someone thought it was important to get a very specific exclusion for their internet based business written into the bill," he added.
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Reminds me of the rush to pass the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution. A bumbling confused Congress ceded its constitutional duty (Article I, Section 8, Clause 11) as the war making body to a deceitful caretaker president bent on escalating the Vietnam War.
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