Ahead of the hearing, Pichai plans to visit the nation’s capital Friday to meet with Democratic and Republican members of Congress, including a session with McCarthy and two dozen GOP colleagues, a spokesman for the GOP leader confirmed Monday. The visit comes weeks after Pichai and Larry Page, the chief executive of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, each declined to appear at a hearing focused on the 2018 election, sparking bipartisan outrage.

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“I look forward to meeting with members on both sides of the aisle, answering a wide range of questions, and explaining our approach,” Pichai said in a statement Monday. “These meetings will continue Google’s long history of engaging with Congress, including testifying seven times to Congress this year.”

When he arrives in Washington, Pichai is sure to face a barrage of bipartisan scrutiny — on an array of topics including the company’s approach to privacy protection and its efforts to thwart foreign governments, including Russia, from spreading disinformation online. Many, including McCarthy, have blasted Google for its reported ambitions to launch a search engine in China that meets Beijing’s strict censorship rules.

But Google must also combat heightened election-year attacks that it is biased against conservatives. Trump has accused Google of “rigged” search results against him, giving better billing to negative stories about his administration — a charge the president levied without evidence.

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Google has denied it rigs its search results.

Trump’s top aides later suggested regulating Google’s presentation of search results. For its part, the Justice Department plans to convene state attorneys general — which have the power to investigate and penalize tech giants such as Google — for an event in Washington on Tuesday exploring Silicon Valley’s online filtering practices.