Chair Rodgers Joins Fox Business to Discuss Biden’s Rush to Green Agenda, TikTok, and NPR’s Ideological Bias

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) joined Fox Business last night to highlight H.R. 6921-which passed the House with bipartisan support-to stop President Biden's ridiculous energy efficiency mandates, TikTok's recent lawsuit, and the Committee's hearing on NPR's ideological bias. Highlights and excerpts from the interview below:

On protecting consumers' freedom to choose the products they want:

"It's really a war on American energy, and now it's coming to your home, so it's a war on American homes and appliances.

"I appreciate you highlighting this issue today. Last year, we had to vote to protect our gas stoves in our homes, and it was the elected representatives of the people that took action and the administration backed away, but now they're coming after other appliances.

"What that means is that costs are going to go up, and reliability is going to go down. That's why there was actually bipartisan support for this bill today.

"We had Democrats crossing over to vote with the Republicans to take this stand to protect consumer choices and to protect Americans that are seeing their costs go up for everything and now it's going to include appliances."

On TikTok's lawsuit to stop divestment from the CCP:

"The Chinese Communist Party actually said in the lawsuit that they filed today that [China] would not approve of TikTok being divested."

"They're trying to make it about free speech, but this bill was focused on national security.

"TikTok is a destructive tool pointed at the United States of America and especially our children.

"That's why Congress acted, and President Biden signed this bill that forces TikTok to divest from ByteDance, which is ultimately controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

"I am just really encouraged that we were able to take get this bill signed into law to protect our homeland. This is a national security threat."

On today's E&C's Oversight Subcommittee Hearing on taxpayer-funded NPR's ideological bias:

"At some point, we are going to ensure that the CEO of NPR does testify in front of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

"This is an oversight hearing to ensure that taxpayer dollars are being spent as intended.

"Ever since we've announced this hearing, we've heard from a lot of people that are concerned about the bias.

"It was really a former senior editor, Mr. Berliner, who, in an op-ed, really exposed the biases that he had seen while working at NPR.

"We're going to be exploring how much taxpayer dollars are actually involved in supporting NPR. You have the national NPR, and then you have a lot of local affiliates. There's a web of funding and entities, and that's going to be our job to actually dig in and ask some questions.

"We know that there have been too many examples where they've been very biased in their reporting, and we're going to bring that to light."

Note: The Subcommittee hearing occurred earlier today. Click here to watch the hearing and review Chair Rodgers' opening statement.

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