Richard Blumenthal

I very much appreciate your answers, and my time has expired.

The fact that it's declining is a big red flag to a finding of monopoly power.

In order to avoid a continuing potential series of government interventions, which none of us really would favor as a first choice...

Because its share of internet searches and advertising is not in excess of 80 percent?

Let me move on to your contention, as I understand it, that Google is not dominant to the point that it has a responsibility under the Sherman Act or other antitrust laws, is that correct?

I would certainly want to gather the facts, and based on what I've seen, I would be very concerned that there is harm to consumers.

My time has expired, but I thank the acting Chairman.

But to return to my analogy, there's no allegation that you necessarily exclude those other horses.

But, you know, I've been trying to think of the analogy here to what the ordinary consumer can understand as what Google does, and as I sat here, you know, the racetrack analogy. You run the racetrack, you own the racetrack. For a long…

So my question to you is, drawing on the lessons that presumably you have learned as you very forthrightly acknowledge, can Google suggest measures to be taken voluntarily at this point to promote competition, to dispel those allegations…

But there's no question about the fact that Google is really the behemoth in the search market these days and that it far outsizes its nearest competitor.

But that's up to the Chairman.

My time has expired. I thank you for your responses, and I hope there will be a second round.

Are there other specific steps that you would suggest?

Well, let me be more narrow in my question.

Thank you for being here, Mr. Schmidt. We welcome you here and I want to join my colleagues who have remarked on what a tremendous success story Google is, a great American success story, a great consumer success story.

Has Google ever scraped or co-opted content?

The gray markets are playing Russian roulette with patients lives

Shortages of drugs around the country mean that hospitals are unable to meet the demand for workhorse medicines

I realize they may be competing or contradictory goals.

Dear Senator Blumenthal, as I sit down this morning to write you this letter, we still have no electricity; it is Friday, September 2nd, 2011, six full days since Hurricane Irene moved over our state.

I believe strongly mandatory penalties may be appropriate, but certainly enhanced penalties, just as we've done through the Adam Walsh Act for child abuse.

I believe that there needs to be more done by the Federal Government, an Office of Elder Justice in the United States Department of Justice.

Probate court rulings are not always in keeping with the APS' service provider's recommendations, resulting in the progress made with the elder to be negated by the court ruling.

I have been in your situation before serving as a Senator, testifying down in Washington and having to catch a plane in the other direction.