I am very much in the camp where I am concerned about the dangers of inaction, under-enforcement, and addressing that is a priority for me.

The antitrust laws are for the protection of competition, not competitors.

The heated discourse at the highest levels of our government cannot be viewed in isolation from the ensuing violence in our communities.

I would now like to recognize my distinguished colleague, the gentleman from Colorado, Mr. Neguse, to introduce our third Witness.

We are here to discuss reforms that will boost competition precisely because of the evidence and because a century of experience has taught us that competition in the economy is always desirable.

I think that we all agree, I believe that there is a need to modernize our antitrust laws to create a market that gives everyone a fair shot.

In our democracy no one should be above the law, not the President, not any of us in Congress, not the world's biggest corporations.

When there is a dominant firm, I do believe there should be a presumption that acquiring a would-be rival who could threaten that firm's dominance is a violation of the antitrust laws.

These monopolies have become too big to govern. They know that if they violate our laws, they probably won't be held accountable.

Nearly a quarter of Rhode Island's nursing homes reported shortages of nurses and nursing aides during the pandemic.

the FBI stonewall of all questions related to this episode provides little reassurance of its propriety.

I want a review of a number of those decisions by the Trump Justice Department.

the FBI conducted a fake investigation rather than a sincere, thorough, and professional one, that merits congressional oversight to understand how, why, and at whose behest and with whose knowledge or connivance this was done.

I would like you to provide answers about what went wrong in the Brett Kavanaugh investigation that I believe was a fake investigation and not a real one, conducted and then covered up by the FBI.

I wish they had raised them with the prior administration instead of focusing myopically on a wall.

you`re not supposed to indict a sitting president.

Physical borders aren't the only thing that we have to be concerned with.

Nationwide, as Senator Crapo pointed out, there have been more than 174,000 nursing home residents and caretakers who have died.