Communication and Technology
Broadband internet and mobile communications networks have spurred innovative services and devices that have transformed nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Congressman Scalise has seen firsthand how connectivity is advancing opportunities for small businesses, creating additional options for health care and education, improving public safety, and allowing friends and family to keep in touch.
Congressman Scalise believes that technology companies are good examples of how market competition, rather than prescriptive regulations or red tape, spur innovation and more choices for consumers. He supports maintaining the bipartisan “light-touch” regulatory approach that has fostered incredible innovations and consumer benefits over recent decades, and is working with his colleagues in Congress to streamline archaic regulations that harm consumers.
Congressman Scalise is proud to serve on the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, where he serves an active and important role in overseeing issues related to the internet, consumer protection, communications networks, and the Federal Communications Commission.
For more information concerning Congressman Scalise's work and views on Communication and Technology issues, please contact his Washington, DC office.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) celebrated House passage of their Secure Equipment Act of 2021, legislation they introduced in June prohibiting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reviewing or issuing new equipment licenses to companies on the FCC’s “Covered Equipment or Services List” that pose a national security threat. The legislation now heads to the Senate for consideration.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) invites students from Louisiana's First Congressional District to participate in the 2021 Congressional App Challenge. The Congressional App Challenge is an annual competition that allows students to submit their applications to be judged by an expert panel. The challenge is open to middle school and high school students who are interested in developing skills in computer science and coding.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) today joined Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans in launching the next phase of their solutions to hold Big Tech accountable, including a sweeping package of discussion draft bills aiming to boost transparency, provide content moderation accountability, reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, promote competition, and prevent illegal and harmful activity on their platforms.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) applauded the Energy and Commerce Committee for passing their Secure Equipment Act of 2021, legislation they introduced last month prohibiting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reviewing or issuing new equipment licenses to companies on the FCC’s “Covered Equipment or Services List” that pose a national security threat.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today at the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) discussed his Secure Equipment Act of 2021, legislation he introduced with Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.), to block the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reviewing or issuing equipment licenses to companies backed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that have been identified by the FCC as national security threats. The Subcommittee considered Whip Scalise’s bill at today’s hearing.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced the Secure Equipment Act of 2021 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reviewing or issuing new equipment licenses to companies on the FCC’s “Covered Equipment or Services List” that pose a national security threat.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) made the following statement after the House passed the Pallone-Thune TRACED Act
WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) authored an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal warning against the dangers of personally and publicly targeting people for their political views, noting it can lead to violence, as he has personally experienced. Whip Scalise cautioned that only the perpetrators of violent acts can bear responsibility for their actions, and instead of dehumanizing our neighbors who disagree with us politically, all Americans must join together in healing from these tragedies.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) today introduced the Modern Television Act of 2019, a bill to repeal outdated regulations of the 1992 Cable Act, including retransmission consent and compulsory copyright license, to increase competition in the TV marketplace and to better address perennial broadcast TV blackouts.