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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey met with several Sens to discuss issues such as data privacy and network neutrality. "Pleasure to meet with @Twitter’s @jack today," Sen Ed Markey (D-MA) tweeted. Sen Markey also wrote that Sens Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Maria Cantwell (D-WW) attended the meeting with Dorsey as well. Dorsey also met with top Republican lawmakers including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune (R-SD).

The Office of Special Counsel has ruled that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai did not violate ethics laws by participating in a panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February, but said that it will be conducting standards training with agency employees in the coming months. "After considering all of the facts and circumstances surrounding the event, OSC has concluded that you did not violate the Hatch Act by merely participating in the panel discussion in an official capacity," OSC official Ana Galindo-Marrone wrote in the letter to Ch