Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a letter to Chairman Jerrold Nadler (R-N.Y.) of the House Judiciary Committee asking him to consider formally extending an invitation to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify in an upcoming subcommittee hearing.

According to the letter, Republicans previously received no response from Dorsey after they sent a request for more information about Twitters content moderation policies earlier in the month. Now, Jordan says its Chairman Nadlers turn to reach out.

I write to notify you that we are calling Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, to testify at this hearing and we expect that you will transmit an invitation to him promptly, Jordan wrote.

The invite comes as the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law gears up to hear testimonies from executives in Googles parent company Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook about their actions moderating content early next week.

As the Committee considers large technology companies and the competitive landscape, a thorough examination cannot exclude Twitter, a market leader in social media. The upcoming hearing represents a significant and unique opportunity to explore these issues with respect to Twitter as part of the Committees investigation, the letter read. We believe there is bipartisan interest to hear from Twitter about its power in the marketplace, its role in moderating content on its platform, and the causes for its recent highly publicized security breaches.

Jordan also noted that, despite Nadlers lack of cooperation on expanding the hearing to the full judiciary committee, Republicans hope that you will be more receptive to our input on the hearings content.

To date, you have declined to grant Republican requests to expand the hearing to the full Committee. But even as you reject Republican views in what you have described as a bipartisan investigation, we believe that the Committees discussion would benefit from the perspective of Twitter, a market leader that would otherwise be noticeably absent from Mondays hearing, wrote Jordan.

Jordan Davidson is an intern for The Federalist and a recent graduate of Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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