Mr. Speaker, in Rhode Island and across the country, the manufacturing industry employs Americans in high-paying, high- skilled jobs while driving innovation and bolstering our national defense. Unfortunately, manufacturers in my home…

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

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.

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

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.

Not all monopsony can be addressed by antitrust.

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…

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

Today's hearing is an opportunity to examine the state of competition in labor markets, as well as ways to promote the economic opportunity of hardworking Americans through the robust enforcement of our antitrust laws.

Thank you very much.

I thank the gentlelady for yielding back.

I think it is fair to say that California has been a hub of innovation.

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.

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…

Mr. President, I was unavoidably absent for two votes this evening due to a flight delay. Had I been present, I would have voted yea on amendment 961 and nay on amendment 1019. ____________________

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