Washington Today 3 23 23 Tiktok Ceo Tells Congress Video App Is Not An Agent Of China

CEO of TikTok tells the House Energy & Commerce Committee that the video app company is "not an agent of China", and is protecting American users' data from being accessed by the Chinese Communist Party, via the TikTok's owner, the Chinese company Bytedance. But Committee members of both parties by large did not agree, with some calling for TikTok to be banned.

House votes on veto override attempt of the first bill that President Joe Biden has ever vetoed, a bill blocking a Labor Department rule allowing retirement plan administrators to consider environmental, social and governance issues, or ESG, in their investment decisions. House vote coming up short of the two-thirds vote required by the Constitution to override a presidential veto.

House also starting debate on a bill titled, "Parents Bill of Rights", laying out specific rights parents have when their children are in public schools, such as to review curriculum and the list of books in the library and to address the school board.

President Biden celebrates the 13th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act and in doing so, criticizes House Republicans for their pressing for federal spending cuts to accompany a debt limit increase later this year.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin & Gen. Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testify before the a House Appropriations Subcommittee about the president's defense budget request, Russia's war in Ukraine and U.S. competition with China. Defense Secretary saying Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia this week sends a “troubling message”

And the Senate works on amendments to the bill to repeal the Iraq War Authorizations of Use of Military Force, or AUMFs from 1991 and 2002.
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