It was Sundar Pichai’s turn in the congressional hot seat. Google’ s CEO testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday for 3.5 hours while lawmakers grilled him on a wide range of issues, including potential political bias on the company’s platforms, its plans for a censored search app in China and its privacy practices.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning. The hearing, titled Transparency & Accountability: Examining Google and its Data Collection, Use and Filtering Practices, focused on a range of issues, including: allegations of anti-conservative bias, data collection, and a censored search engine in China.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before Congress on Tuesday amid increasing political scrutiny of big tech. Advertisement Pichai, appearing before the House Judiciary Committee, was asked about its secretive efforts to make a censored search engine for China and allegations of conservative bias, a favorite cause of the American right.

Google's chief executive officer Sundar Pichai will defend his company's efforts to protect the privacy of users and deny accusations of political bias when he testifies before Congress Tuesday morning, according to his prepared testimony.