Top Democrat on Senate panel opposes sending subpoenas to tech CEOs

The ranking Democrat on the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee rejected a request by Republicans on Thursday to subpoena three top tech executives to testify at an upcoming hearing, accusing them of trying to use the subpoena power for political gain.The committee, chaired by Republican Senator Roger Wicker, had planned to send out subpoenas if the chief executives of Twitter Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc did not agree to testify by the end of Thursday at a hearing about a law that pro