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

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.

I strongly believe that effective enforcement is a complement, not an alternative to thoughtful regulation.

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

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.

To them, the penalties for breaking the law are just the costs of doing business.

They decide whether their workers will face exposure to COVID-19, and they decide when their workers can use the bathroom.

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.

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

They force us to ration lifesaving medications, like insulin, set the wages for working families, and choose which small businesses live or die.

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.

We have got to have laws and a message to the courts that it is important to have robust enforcement...

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.

You are aware that 48 State Attorneys General, Republicans and Democrats, agreed that this evidence warranted filing an antitrust complaint, correct?

the law is working just fine, but don't the outcomes in these cases say just the opposite?

Mr. President, today I am reintroducing the Cybersecurity Disclosure Act along with three members of the Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman Warner and Senators Collins and Wyden, in addition to Senators Cortez Masto and Cramer, who…

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

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.