Washington, March 5 -- Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter issued the following press release:

Reps. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) today celebrated the Energy and Commerce Committee's advancement of their bipartisan Sammy's Law Act, a bill requiring large social media companies to monitor for potentially dangerous online activity involving children under the age of 17.

Sammy's Law is a bill safeguarding children online by informing parents about dangerous interactions on social media. The bill, which gives parents the choice to use third-party safety software to protect their children from harmful situations on social media, is named after Sammy Chapman, who, at the age of 16, was approached by a drug dealer on...