I thank the gentlelady for yielding back.

I can't--I'm trying to understand why the Department of Justice would engage in this kind of anti-worker advocacy.

This is where antitrust has a role to play in combating monopsony power that suppresses wages today in the U.S. labor market.

my opinion based on what I said about vertical restraints, is that vertical restraints should be regulated much more stringently than horizontal restraints, because they often embody top down control by a more powerful firm, which is…

Not all monopsony can be addressed by antitrust.

It seemed like that enforcement action, this notion of its necessity for business purposes has been completely refuted by subsequent events.

That doesn't sound like a per se Rule then, to me.

allowing the current antitrust federal agencies more resources to be able to invest in antitrust labor enforcement, which they have started doing, is probably something that would be helpful in making progress on that front.

I think this is one problem. If antitrust law is saying it's going look at workers and labor markets as well, we can't use consumer--speculative consumer benefits to justify harms to workers.

for those of us who consider these no-poach agreements to be a substantial violation of law but also a very powerful force in keeping workers in place and stagnating their wages, the promise to be rigorous in their enforcement and not in 3…

Are there other ways that you think that Congress should think about addressing this issue, whether through legislation or oversight?

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 28, insert after line 12 the following: SEC. 118. INDEPENDENT STUDY ON MEDIA LITERACY AND ONLINE…

May I inquire how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Rhode Island has 2 minutes remaining.

If only my colleague had actually read and understood the bill, he would know that it is an independent study. I think that would make a difference in how, perhaps, he felt about the bill. Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman…

Today, I am joined by Senator Van Hollen in reintroducing the Consumer Credit Control Act, which gives consumers greater control over when and how their consumer reports are shared by consumer reporting agencies. Our current consumer…

Putin has long played a very prominent role in Syria and he thinks--he sees this as playing an even more prominent role.

It was a dumb idea for the President to do it.

I hope that you hear from this committee a bipartisan sense of disgust at the policy of the President--that it has harmed our standing in the world and has betrayed an important ally to the United States.