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Markup of Twelve Pieces of Legislation
Members revise a minors’ social media bill into the Guardian Act emphasizing parental consent and age‑verification, strengthen anti‑bot ticketing rules with improved reporting and enforcement, and establish an interagency scam‑prevention task force, before authorizing technical changes and formally adjourning the markup.
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Markup of Twelve Pieces of Legislation
The subcommittee considers protecting U.S. entities from indirect pressure to comply with EU‑style due diligence rules via supply chains, then turns to federal action against nitrous oxide misuse by directing CPSC to classify consumer products as banned hazardous substances while preserving legitimate medical and industrial uses.
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Markup of Twelve Pieces of Legislation
Members debate two bills on plastics and recyclability claims, contrasting concerns over greenwashing, federal preemption of stronger state rules, and consumer deception with advocates’ push for a national, FTC/EPA‑aligned framework using tools like mass‑balance accounting and certification to address interstate patchworks and enable advanced recycling.
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Markup of Twelve Pieces of Legislation
The chair outlines the markup’s scope around consumer protection and competitiveness, then members move through semiconductor, AI, and quantum-related bills to bolster U.S. supply chains, restrict sensitive equipment exports, and position Commerce to assess market risks and support leadership in emerging technologies, with some partisan disagreement on open-source AI authorities.
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Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
The committee closes with a focused exchange on the PACK Act’s voluntary, preemptive national standard versus stricter state laws like California’s SB 343, followed by final member remarks on consumer deception, online transparency, and anticipated next steps before adjournment.
Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
Later questioning centers on Chinese‑controlled platforms and foreign‑adversary marketplace listings under the Stop the Fraud Act, disclosure of foreign government‑funded online advertising, the PACK Act’s voluntary federal framework on recyclability and advanced recycling, and concrete counterfeit case studies and scam‑prevention coordination through a federal task force.
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Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
Members focus on discrete legislative proposals, pressing the case for the App Store Freedom Act against Apple/Google market power, advancing the Nitrous Oxide Safety Act to curb recreational misuse, and examining a Strategic Task Force on Scam Prevention alongside BOSS and SWIFT ticketing reforms to address junk fees and protect consumers and seniors from sophisticated scams.
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Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
Members begin questioning on blacklisting high‑risk foreign marketplaces under the Stop the Fraud Act, rising scams targeting seniors, post‑Trump v. Slaughter threats to FTC/CPSC independence, and the clash between state EPR and labeling laws like California’s SB 54 and proposed federal standards such as the PACK Act and RMAA.
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Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
The four witnesses present their initial statements on federal recyclability labeling via the PACK Act and RMAA, abuses in for‑profit debt settlement and the need for new scam‑prevention tools, strengthening FTC/CPSC and ticketing reforms, and systemic risks from Chinese and other foreign online marketplaces selling unsafe and counterfeit products.
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Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Consumer Protection in a Changing Marketplace.
The chair and key members open the hearing, outlining a package of consumer protection bills on FTC and CPSC authorities, unsafe imports, online marketplaces, recycling and labeling standards, and ticketing transparency, including the bipartisan App Store Freedom Act and draft BOSS and SWIFT Acts.
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American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secure U.S. Technology Leadership.
The chair closes questioning, adds materials to the record, sets deadlines for additional written questions, and requests prompt written responses before adjourning the hearing.
American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secure U.S. Technology Leadership.
The committee examines whether IP and allied export controls can contain AI risks, lessons from CHIPS & Science for R&D and workforce policy, structural memory shortages driven by AI and robotics, port robotics and labor impacts, federal privacy preemption, and federal capacity to govern open‑weight AI, autonomous vehicles (SELF DRIVE), and U.S. biomanufacturing strategy (BEDROCK, BMIA).
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American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secure U.S. Technology Leadership.
Members press witnesses on the Biosecurity Modernization and Innovation Act, Chinese advances in robotics and open‑source AI, export risks, national vs. state AI and privacy frameworks, EU CS3D supply‑chain burdens, research workforce erosion, and public anxiety about AI, data centers, and climate policy shifts.
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American Global Competitiveness at 250: Legislative Proposals to Secure U.S. Technology Leadership.
The chair and witnesses frame the hearing around maintaining U.S. leadership in AI, chips, quantum, robotics, and biomanufacturing in the face of China’s state-led strategy, Trump-era research funding cuts, and emerging EU due diligence and methane rules with extraterritorial effects on U.S. supply chains.
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Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and Data Security Law
In a later session, the chair launches a distinct hearing on the bipartisan American Privacy Rights Act, positioning it as a stronger national privacy standard with data minimization, enhanced children’s and sensitive‑data protections, multi‑layered enforcement, and a limited private right of action.
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and Data Security Law
Working‑group Republicans and supportive witnesses reiterate that a multistate model can deliver uniform national protections and regulatory certainty, after which the chair completes procedural steps for the record, sets deadlines for additional questions, and formally adjourns the hearing.
Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and Data Security Law
Members press witnesses on consent mechanics, trial‑bar risks, data‑broker opt‑outs, children’s online safety, discrimination and civil‑rights safeguards, health and AI‑related data, and cybersecurity obligations, revealing sharp partisan divides over private enforcement, scope of preemption, and the bill’s impact on stronger state protections.
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Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and Data Security Law
Initial questioning by the chair and senior Democrats and Republicans probes how the Secure Data Act compares to GDPR and state laws, whether state‑modeled provisions were industry‑driven, and how choices on data minimization, consent, private rights of action, and broad preemption would affect real consumer power and existing protections.
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Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and Data Security Law
Industry, business, civil society, and former enforcement officials present divergent views on a controller–processor national framework, preemption of state laws, small‑business burdens, data‑rights protections, and the need for strong enforcement mechanisms under a federal privacy regime.
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Examining Legislation to Establish a Federal Comprehensive Privacy and Data Security Law
Chair and senior members from both parties outline the goals of a federal privacy law, contrast the Secure Data Act with prior bipartisan efforts, and stake out competing Republican and Democratic frameworks on preemption, data minimization, children’s protections, and enforcement tools.
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