Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Calling On House Republicans To Take Up Bipartisan Kids’ Online Safety Legislation Passed By The Senate This Week

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor calling on the House to take up the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children’s and Teens Online Protection Act (COPPA 2.0), which the Senate passed earlier this week. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Two days ago, the Senate overwhelmingly passed two of the most important updates in decades to federal laws protecting our kids– the Kids Online Safety Act and the COPPA.

I repeat: it passed the Senate overwhelmingly, this was a good bipartisan thing. 91 votes were in its favor.

I then called on the House to take these bills up, to keep the momentum alive, to do right by parents who worked so hard to get these bills done.

But this morning, it has been reported that House Republicans will refuse to take these bills up.

I hope these reports are not accurate. Just one week ago, Speaker Johnson said that he’d like to get KOSA done. I hope that hasn’t changed. Letting KOSA and COPPA collect dust in the House would be an awful mistake and a gut punch – a gut punch to these brave, wonderful parents who have worked so hard to reach this point.

So let me repeat what I said earlier this week: when the House returns in the fall KOSA and COPPA must be a priority. These parents, the kids across America deserve better. I hope House Republicans change course swiftly and take KOSA and COPPA up.

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