Madam President, I wish to talk about an amendment I intend to offer linking TAA expansion to enactment of the three pending free-trade agreements. I will send an amendment to the desk in the near future for consideration. This amendment…

I ask unanimous consent that immediately following my remarks, if it is all right with the distinguished Senator from Ohio, the former Trade Representative, the other distinguished Senator from Ohio, Mr. Portman, be allowed to give his…

Mr. President, I strongly oppose the TAA amendment offered by my good friend and colleague from Montana, Chairman Baucus. Before I get into the specifics, I think it is important to put this debate in context. For years I have been working…

I ask unanimous consent that further reading be dispensed with. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To make the effective date of the amendments expanding the trade…

I apologize to Senator Brown, but Senator Portman was promised he would be able to speak at 11:45. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio.

Madam President, on the cusp of victory, the President sacrificed it by demanding more government spending on a controversial domestic training program. After first asking Colombia, Panama and South Korea to take unprecedented steps to…

Internet search is critical to economic growth in the United States and Google has long been a dominant force in this arena.

Google already possesses unprecedented power to steer users and to stifle competition.

I'm a firm believer in the free market. I'm also an almost life-long fan of Robert Bork.

It seems to me that--I don't know whether you call this a separate algorithm or whether you have reverse-engineered one algorithm, but either way you've cooked it so that you're always 3rd.

my real interest as a free market conservative Republican is in seeing that actors like Google take voluntary action so that there's no need for antitrust enforcement in the first place

We learned from Robert Bork that the animating principle of antitrust justice ought to be consumer welfare.

The right answer is appropriate antitrust enforcement.

As a conservative Republican who favors free markets, I believe that ensuring robust competition in this critical area of our Nation's economy will benefit consumers, it will spur innovation, and it will lead to job creation.

I am troubled by some of Google's practices, its practice of inserting its own offerings, in the midst of natural algorithmic search results, usually in the most prominent position of the page and with the most eye-catching display.

this same practice that I described presents a clear and inherent conflict of interest.

this practice seems to me to leverage Google's primary search dominance to give its own secondary services and listings an unnatural and an extraordinary advantage.

Antitrust enforcement can and should play a role.