U.S. senator says working on companion
bills to House antitrust measures
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[June 16, 2021]
By Diane Bartz
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Amy
Klobuchar, who chairs the Senate antitrust subcommittee, said that work
is underway on companion legislation to antitrust bills introduced in
the U.S. House of Representatives last week. |
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-MN, asks questions during a hearing of the Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, at the U.S.
Capitol in Washington DC, U.S., April 27, 2021. Tasos Katopodis/Pool via
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While none of the four tech-focused House antitrust bills
introduced Friday have a Senate companion, Klobuchar said late
Monday that she expected that to change. "I think you'll see a
number of bills introduced in the Senate," she said, but
declined to elaborate.
Two of the bills introduced last week address the issue of giant
companies, such as Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google,
creating a platform for other businesses and then competing
against those same businesses.
A third would require a platform to refrain from any merger
unless it can show the acquired company does not compete with
any product or service the platform is in. A fourth would
require platforms to allow users to transfer their data
elsewhere if they desire, including to a competing business.
The House members also introduced a fifth bill which is a
companion to a Klobuchar measure that has already passed the
Senate and would increase the budgets of antitrust enforcers and
make companies planning the biggest mergers pay more.
(Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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