House Energy and Commerce Committee

House members on both sides of the political aisle have become increasingly wary of TikTok, and after a much-anticipated hearing with the app’s CEO on Thursday, calls for an outright ban of the app have grown.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will appear before a House panel in March as Congress weighs security concerns with the Chinese-owned app and considers legislation to potentially ban the app nationwide.

Incoming House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) said in a statement on Monday that the committee will fight the Biden administration’s move to grant Obamacare access to illegal aliens in Washington state.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday on the baby formula shortage unfolding under President Joe Biden’s administration. 

House Democrats will hold hearings blaming oil and natural gas companies for the soaring gas prices under President Joe Biden.

Jesse Jensen, a former Army Ranger and president of Task Force Argo looking to unseat Rep. Kim Schrier (D-WA) in the midterms, slammed her corruption and voting record in Congress during his appearance on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday this past weekend.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a non-partisan ethics watchdog organization, demanded an investigation into House Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Kim Schrier’s (D-WA) stock transactions after she allegedly failed to adequately disclose up to one million dollars in Apple stock sales, allegedly violating federal law.

The House Communications and Technology subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday on “disinformation and extremism” in the media.

Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) won a coveted seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday following a battle with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

A significant number of states will reopen their colleges and universities by the fall, while K-12 schools will follow suit on a jurisdiction by jurisdiction basis, the nation’s top disease official told lawmakers this week.

States experiencing growing novel coronavirus outbreaks may need to pause or roll back their reopening stages without necessarily reimposing an “absolute shutdown,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, told a House panel on Tuesday.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday featuring a witness that calls for the elimination of “whiteness.”

A Democrat-led House panel allowed a witness, federal vaccine specialist Dr. Rick Bright who claims to be a whistleblower, to bring a lawyer to counsel him during his testimony Thursday against U.S. President Donald Trump’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

A recent report states that congressional antitrust investigators are looking into Google’s plans to use a new internet protocol which they worry could give the firm a competitive advantage by making it harder for others to access consumer data.

Greg Walden said during the House Republican retreat that private-equity firms’ “scare tactics” will not stop Congress from reforming surprise medical bills.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and ranking member Greg Walden (R-OR) sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, urging him to strike language mirroring Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has yet to be sworn in as New York 14th District’s Representative in the House, but she is already lobbying to be seated on some of the most powerful committees in that chamber.

Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said on Thursday that she would like a seat on the House Financial Services Committee.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is reportedly reviewing whether Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made false statements during his testimony in September.

While Democrat lawmakers squealed about a “right-wing conspiracy theory” at Jack Dorsey’s testimony on social media censorship Wednesday, Republicans rolled out a laundry list of examples of Twitter’s bias against conservative users.

During a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) took Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to task over bias in Twitter’s “suggested follows” feature.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted that his company’s algorithms “were unfairly filtering 600,000 accounts, including some members of Congress,” from search results based on the type of followers they had.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has released a statement ahead of his testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee tomorrow.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is set to appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee tomorrow regarding the company’s censorship practices, here’s what you need to know ahead of the hearing.

Twitter has said that its overzealous downranking of accounts was the result of errors in their system, just three days before CEO Jack Dorsey is set to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the subject of social media censorship.

GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify in front of Congress on the topic of shadowbanning and censorship on social media.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to Google and Apple on Monday, expressing concern over the treatment of user privacy at both companies.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) lavished praise for former Democrat Tennesee Gov. Phil Bredesen over Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn in the 2018 Senate midterm election, even suggesting that he will not campaign against the Democrat.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is meeting with lawmakers in Washington on Monday ahead of his testimony before multiple judiciary committees this week.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) argued at an Axios event on Wednesday that regulation will come for big tech companies if they are not responsible.

A senior Tennessee Republican congresswoman told Breibart News Saturday the dealings between the State Department led by Hillary R. Clinton, Russia, and the Clinton Foundation are a prime example of how the Clintons established a unique business model that brokered government decisions and made them fabulously wealthy.

The latest White House deputy to pick a fight with the House GOP is the former Obamacare czar who now oversees the massive Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Though the House is officially in recess, committee chairman Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), committee vice chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and committee chairman emeritus Joe Barton (R-TX) signed letters to Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, StemExpress, Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. (ABR), and Novogenix Laboratories. A news release posted on the committee’s website states the request for further information “build[s] on the committee’s investigation into the shocking Planned Parenthood videos released in recent weeks.”

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has asked Planned Parenthood to make Dr. Deborah Nucatola–the group’s medical director who was seen in the sting video released earlier this week–available to brief committee members before the end of July.

Seven-term Republican Congressman Michael Burgess’ (R-TX) bill on Patent protection has been voted through the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The bill is now making its way to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.