Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is looking on Microsoft to face the identical antitrust scrutiny as different massive tech platforms in a letter to the corporate Monday.

In the letter, Jordan asks Microsoft president Brad Smith if he believes the corporate can be affected by the swath of antitrust payments launched within the House earlier this month. There are 5 payments in complete, spanning from providing up more cash for antitrust enforcers to banning massive tech platforms from shopping for up small rivals.

The antitrust bundle got here out of a yearslong investigation into Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The measures give attention to the anticompetitive behaviors of those 4 firms, and it’s not as clear how they’d have an effect on different massive firms like Microsoft. While Microsoft meets the usual laid out underneath these payments to be thought of a “covered platform,” like assembly the over $600 billion market cap and 50 million month-to-month lively customers, the payments don’t goal the corporate’s particular strains of enterprise.

“Big Tech, including Microsoft, Inc., is out to get conservatives,” Jordan mentioned in his Monday letter. “It is unclear why Microsoft has avoided significant attention from House Democrats.”

Assumably, Microsoft would face the identical proposed requirements in buying firms, like taking up the burden of proof, and making the information it takes from customers extra moveable and usable on different platforms. But whereas Amazon and Apple would face extra structural adjustments, like promoting off separate strains of enterprise, Microsoft would doubtless not be topic to the principles.

Jordan’s letter, which additionally identified a number of situations he purports as Microsoft being biased towards conservatives, comes as a rift is rising among the many House Republican caucus over the bundle. While all 5 payments had been launched with Republican and Democrat co-sponsors, not all Republicans are on board. The Wall Street Journal reported final week that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) didn’t help the payments.

Jordan additionally appears to oppose the measures, opting to take completely different motion towards tech, like reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, to go after platforms that allegedly censor conservative speech.

“Democrat impeachment managers don’t care about conservative censorship. Their next big mission? Empower Big Tech and Big Government to make it worse,” Jordan mentioned in a tweet final week.

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), the highest Republican on the House antitrust subcommittee, known as Jordan out over his criticism on Twitter, saying, “Using antitrust laws to stop Big Tech’s bad behavior isn’t Big Government, it’s law enforcement,” Buck mentioned.

The House Judiciary Committee plans to mark up the bundle on Wednesday. It’s unclear how each member plans to vote. Earlier this month, lobbyists for Rupert Murdoch’s media firms, together with Fox Corp. and News Corp., had been urging House Republicans to vote in favor of the payments. On his show last Friday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson additionally urged lawmakers to approve the payments.

“The tech monopolies are actually a threat to the country,” Carlson mentioned. “If you care about democracy, you need to break up the monopolies.”