Today Representatives Anthony Gonzalez (OH-16), Annie Kuster (NH-02), Guy Reschenthaler (PA-14) and Lucy McBath (GA-06) along with U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) reintroduced, the END Child Exploitation Act, legislation designed to extend the period of time that technology companies are required to preserve information about child sexual abuse images they r... Read more »
Today, Representative Anthony Gonzalez (OH-16), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, questioned Vladimir Tenev CEO of Robinhood Markets Inc. The House Financial Services Committee scheduled this hearing after GameStop’s stock surged over 2,000% and Robinhood chose to prohibit users from continuing to purchase the stock for a short period of time. “We cannot live in a world where my ... Read more »
Today Representatives Anthony Gonzalez (OH-16) and Ann McLane Kuster (NH-02), sent a letter to President Biden urging the Administration to prioritize funding for law enforcement that combat the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and to support bipartisan legislative solutions in addressing this horrific problem. The letter emphasizes the urgency of addressing this issue, as the COVID-19... Read more »
Today, U.S. Representatives Anthony Gonzalez (OH-16), Kathleen Rice (NY-04), and Dave Joyce (OH-14) reintroduced the bipartisan Improving Housing Incomes for Veterans Act, which helps local service providers collaborate more effectively with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and streamline the processes necessary to help house America’s veterans. “We as a nation can live safely and free beca... Read more »
Today, U.S. Representative Anthony Gonzalez (OH-16) and Representative Abigail Spanberger (VA-07) introduced the Protecting Patient Access to Lifesaving COVID-19 Drugs, legislation that will expand access to lifesaving COVID-19 treatments by requiring private health insurance plans to cover the administration costs of monoclonal antibodies without cost-sharing. “Monoclonal antibodies are the only ... Read more »
U.S. Congressman Anthony Gonzalez along with Chairman of the German Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee Norbert Röttgen, and nearly 70 other bipartisan legislators across the international Group of Seven (G7) led an interparliamentary letter to newly elected U.S. President Joseph Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the other heads of state across the G7 urging increased cooperation and p... Read more »
Today, Congressman Anthony Gonzalez (R—Rocky River), U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Congressmen Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) released the following statements regarding the signing of their bipartisan Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act into law. “The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act is about ending the practice of companies based in China, some fully controlled by the Chine... Read more »
Legislation introduced by U.S. Congressman Anthony Gonzalez to address flooding along the Tuscarawas River again passed the House of Representatives this week as part of the House and Senate negotiated Water Resources Development Act of 2020. This legislation is now being sent to the United States Senate. The bill, known as the Tuscarawas River Flooding Study Act, will expedite an Army Corps of En... Read more »
The House of Representatives again passed U.S. Congressman Anthony Gonzalez’s (R – Rocky River) bill to combat manipulated media content known as “deepfakes” on Tuesday via unanimous consent. This legislation now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law. The bill, the Identifying Outputs of Generative Adversarial Networks Act (IOGAN Act), supports critical research to accelerate the dev... Read more »
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives today passed the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report which includes pieces of legislation authored by U.S. Congressman Anthony Gonzalez (R – Rocky River) aimed at curbing World Bank funding to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), limiting CCP influences on American universities, combatting human trafficking, and imple... Read more »