Dear Chairman Leahy, Vice Chairman Shelby, Senator Van Hollen, and Senator Hyde-Smith:
We are an ideologically diverse coalition of organizations that have come together to preserve and promote the constitutional role of Congress, including Congress’s power of the purse. We write today to ask the Senate Appropriations Committee to include language in Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriations legislation strengthening and reaffirming Congress’s fundamental constitutional authority over federal spending.
Specifically, we ask you to include several provisions that aim to rebalance the growing asymmetry between Executive and Congressional control over federal spending. These provisions were included in the House-passed Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Appropriations bill in Fiscal Year 2021, including:
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Dear Senator/Representative:
We, the undersigned, oppose state regulations on online application distribution platforms, more commonly known as app stores. Google’s Play Store is the largest app distribution platform, followed by Apple’s App Store. But they are not the only app distribution platforms; companies like Samsung, Amazon, and Sony also have app stores, and there are a host of other app stores available, such as Aptoide and F-Droid.
We are concerned that proposed mandates would fundamentally restructure the online application distribution ecosystem, which has provided consumers safe, secure, and easy access to the apps that populate our smartphones and make them so useful in everyday life. At the same time, app stores provide developers access to a global market, providing services that developers would otherwise be required to invest in themselves, such as distribution, marketing, and the infrastructure necessary to reach their customers.