from NBC
A House-passed bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S. won’t be taken up by the Senate any time soon. In fact, it could take months before any TikTok-related legislation hits the floor in the Democratic-controlled chamber.
Senators emerged Wednesday from a classified briefing about TikTok saying they were highly concerned that the popular social media app — owned by China-based parent company ByteDance — poses a serious national security threat to the U.S. and its people. But key senators appear to be in no hurry to take up the House-passed TikTok bill and are working on their own legislation to regulate the app.
Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., who organized Wednesday’s briefing along with Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner, D-Va., said after the closed-door meeting she might want to team with Warner again to hold a joint public hearing about TikTok.
But such a hearing would happen after Congress returns from its two-week Easter recess, which is scheduled to begin next week. Pressed about why she didn’t share the same urgency as House members, who rushed to pass the bill last week on a lopsided, bipartisan vote of 352-65, Cantwell replied: “I think it’s important to get it right.”...
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Also on a delayed parallel track, latest is the big house mouse that roared named johnson will intentionally delay that omni aid bill, usually stated as $61B; it will not even be presented/voted/passed in the house till after the easter recess reconvenes.
ReplyDeleteSo they can pretend to look all righteous in the meantime to their 'constituents' back home, as if they care.