"Requiring the divestment of Beijing-influenced entities from TikTok would land squarely within established constitutional precedent," McConnell said. Critics of the bill have questioned the bill's constitutionality given the government's targeting of a single company and have also said it would violate...
The bill is now headed to the Senate where, if it passes, it will hit President Joe Biden's desk. Biden, whose campaign is on TikTok, said he would sign the bill into law. That would give TikTok five months to either sell TikTok or see it banned in the U.S. This isn't the ...
The decision by House Republicans to include TikTok as part of alarger foreign aid package, a priority for President Joe Biden with broad congressional support for Ukraine and Israel, fast-tracked the ban after an earlier version had stalled in the Senate. A standalone bill with a six-month ...
These bans are little more than political theater." House Republicans are expected to move forward Tuesday with a bill that would give Biden the power to ban TikTok nationwide. The legislation, proposed by Rep. Mike McCaul, looks to circumvent the challenges the administration would face in ...
TikTok is extremely popular in the USA. The ByteDance-owned app currently has over 100 million users and has been one of the fastest-growing apps in the world, its 2+ billion global users. According to the bill introduced early this week, the ban could affect other technologies from ...
The video clip featured in the viral TikTok comes from a press briefing given the very same day by Obama administration press secretary Jay Carney, who worked in the White House from 2011 to 2014. In response to a reporter’s question about the impact of the bill on U.S.- Uga...
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast and fellow lawmakers urge UNHRC President Jürg Lauber to reject Francesca Albanese’s reappointment, citing her inflammatory comments on Israel and alleged violations of the UN code of conduct. ...
Fahy also told Politico that the bill intentionally aims to target Tesla CEO Elon Musk in the wake of his efforts under the recently created government efficiency division under the Trump administration. “No matter what we do, we’ve got to take this from Elon Musk,” Fahy said. “He’...
The bill also establishes a library "bill of rights" stating that "all public libraries are forums for information and ideas" and requiring that theyadhere to certain principles.If libraries don't adopt this policy, they would not be eligible for state funding, according to the language adopted...
Now that it has cleared the committee, the TikTok legislation will head to a floor vote next week, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said ina post on XThursday evening. Its fate is less clear in the Senate, where there is no companion bill and the Democratic chair of the Senate Commerce...