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ICYMI – Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-48), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, published an op-ed in Variety entitled: The Music Modernization Act Transformed Licensing, but There’s More Work to Do.
Washington — This week on Capitol Hill, Subcommittee Chairman Darrell Issa convened a music ecosystem stakeholder roundtable for House Judiciary Committee Members. Issa invited speakers covering all facets of the music copyright industry to provide insight into their role within the ecosystem.
Washington — Rep. Darrell Issa (CA-48) and Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-4) demanded answers last week in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan following a public visit to Beijing by State Department officials on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Washington — Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-48) sent a letter last week to Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Rena Bitter to take necessary steps to resolve the State Department's unprecedented passport backlog.
ICYMI - Rep Darrell Issa published an op-ed in The Hill entitled "Biden’s FTC is blocking a game-changer for cancer patients"
Issa wrote, "Early detection. Accessible cures. Tolerable treatments. Historic savings to a government health system going bankrupt. This isn’t too good to be true. It’s the stated goal of an American innovation that Lina Khan and the Biden administration can’t see past shutting down. Abusing the consumer protection power of the FTC to stop mergers by any means necessary is the textbook definition of regulatory abuse."
ICYMI - Rep Issa: Dissent Cable Shows Biden Allowed Kabul Afghanistan Disaster
"This obliterates the administration's big lie on Afghanistan — that this could not have been foretold, nobody could have seen this coming, nothing could have done to prevent it," Issa's office shared. "We know it was received. We know it wasn't followed. Their personnel on the ground saw this, reported it, warned them, and were ignored."
Washington – On Tuesday, Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-48), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, chaired a hearing to examine concerns related to the Biden Administration's waiver of U.S. intellectual property (IP) rights for COVID-19 vaccine technologies and the contemplation of future more expansive waivers of U.S. IP rights.
Key takeaways from the hearing include:
ICYMI - GOP Rep. Darrell Issa says, 'This is no ordinary foreign policy stumble'
The Biden administration is getting slammed as handing a "major coup" to Chinese President Xi Jinping after two senior officials made a trip to China on Sunday [the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre] in an attempt to ease tensions between the two countries.
ICYMI - Issa continues pressing the State Department on grant funding to blacklister of conservative outlets.
As published in the Washington Examiner by Gabe Kaminsky, May 30, 2023: