From left, Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and ranking member Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., conduct a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee markup in Hart Building on July 31, 2019.

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The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday voted on a bipartisan basis to subpoena the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter to testify before the panel about concerns over the tech industry’s key legal shield, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

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