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TikTok ‘ban’ passes in the House again, moving to the Senate in foreign aid package (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by MicroWave to c/news

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The House once again passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance divests it — but this time, it’s in a way that will be harder for the Senate to stall.

The bill passed 360-58 as part of a larger bill related to sanctions on foreign adversaries like Russia. It’s part of a package of foreign aid bills that seek to provide military aid to Ukraine and Israel and humanitarian aid to Gaza. Due to the urgency of the funds, packaging the TikTok bill with these measures means that the Senate will need to consider the proposal more swiftly than it would as a standalone bill. The earlier TikTok bill, which passed the House 352-65 just last month, has so far lingered in the Senate, with lawmakers there giving mixed messages about its future.

Notably, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA), whose committee would normally take up the bill before it proceeds to the floor, had remained noncommittal about it. But after the version in the foreign aid package was released, she said she supported the legislation.

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[–] Ranvier 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That bill does not have anything related to Ukraine in it, four separate bills, 8034, 8035, 8036, and 8038. Just all passed on the same day.

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/house-vote-ukraine-israel-taiwan-aid-04-20-24/h_30753837f6b276a7383d0f0e96934af8

While HR 8038 bill has provisions about TikTok as you said, HR 8035 is the Ukraine bill.

https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-8035

The tik tok bill 8038 passed with a vote of 360-58 while the Ukraine bill 8035 passed with a vote of 311-112.

8034 has the Israel aid and 8036 has Taiwan and other countries.

The bill with the TikTok provisions did have some other things in it though like sanctions on Iranian oil, and giving more powers to seize Russian assets.

[–] gorysubparbagel 4 points 8 months ago

Oh I see that makes sense, yeah I misunderstood it. Think the "part of a package" portion tripped me up