Lawmakers' household working for Huge Tech exhibits undue sway, prime GOP critic says

Top Republican Silicon Valley critic Ken Buck flagged the variety of Congress members' family members working for Huge Tech firms as an indication of the trade's extra affect over the Democratic Get together.

Buck, who's more likely to turn into the chairman of the Judiciary Committee antitrust panel chargeable for insurance policies affecting the tech sector, stated that Democratic leaders didn't cross substantive payments affecting Huge Tech, whereas additionally having kids work for the businesses that the laws would have regulated.

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"What's uncommon is quite a lot of kids of members who're employed by these firms," Buck stated at a Heritage occasion on Wednesday selling his upcoming e-book Crushed: Huge Tech's Conflict on Free Speech. "That is what blows you away."

He famous that Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer's daughters work for tech firms: Jessica Schumer works as a registered lobbyist at Amazon, whereas Alison Schumer works as a product advertising and marketing supervisor at Meta. He additionally stated that Rep. Zoe Lofgren's (D-CA) daughter works on Google's authorized group on contract legislation.

Buck additionally famous former Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi's husband's investments in Huge Tech firms, which had been scrutinized as Congress handed laws to subsidize home semiconductor manufacturing.

Buck has pushed for a number of payments to limit Huge Tech's energy by antitrust, together with a number of high-profile bipartisan measures meant to restrict the market energy of the most important firms. This contains the Home passage of the State Anti-Belief Enforcement Act in September. Buck has additionally known as for Congress to cease receiving monetary donations from Huge Tech firms.

Whereas Buck known as out Democrats for permitting their household to work at Huge Tech companies, Republicans are additionally implicated. Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rob Portman (R-OH) have each had members of the family work at Google sooner or later up to now.