U.S. lawmakers consider changes to TikTok crackdown bill, says senator
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TikTok logo is displayed on the screen of a smartphone. Sheldon Cooper | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images U.S. lawmakers are considering changes to address concerns about a bill that would give the Biden administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned TikTok, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee who has cosponsored the legislation said on Monday. Democratic Senator Mark Warner told Reuters that aggressive lobbying by the ByteDance-owned short video app TikTok against the Restrict Act "slowed a bit of our momentum" after it was introduced in March. Warner said lawmakers have "a proposal on a series of amendments to make it explicitly clear" and address criticisms, including that individual Americans could be impacted or that the bill represents a broad expansion of government power. "We can take care of those concerns in a fair way," Warner said. The legislation endorsed by the White House would grant the Commerce Department new