John Conyers

So what this means, it means that the ACA sponsors actually intended not only to stiff the very people that they wanted to benefit.

I am so glad you are here today, and I would ask you to respond, please.

The President's constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws would be an important issue worthy of a hearing by this Committee if there was any evidence that the President has, indeed, failed to fulfill his duty.

Members of the House, I rise to speak about the negotiations under way in Geneva today between the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany. Mr. Speaker, those negotiations have the potential to lead to a peaceful…

I am pleased now to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Florida, Ted Deutch, a very effective member of the House Judiciary Committee.

It is my pleasure now to yield 4 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Cartwright).

I am pleased to yield an additional 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

I am now pleased to yield as much time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from Houston, Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), a senior active member of the House Judiciary Committee.

I am pleased now to yield such time as he may consume to the distinguished gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee.

Unfortunately, antitrust scrutiny of mergers has been woefully insufficient over the past 30 years until only recently.

Thus, we should be especially skeptical about the potential detriment presented by a rapid succession of big mergers in a given industry.

My constituents are all too aware of the consequences of lax antitrust enforcement.

Today's oversight hearing on the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, provides an excellent opportunity for us to focus on the critical purpose of antitrust law.

Protecting consumers from antitrust violations is important.

We imprison more young Black men between the ages of 20 and 34 in this country than South Africa under apartheid

Today's oversight hearing provides an excellent opportunity for us to focus on the critical purpose of antitrust law: to ensure that businesses do not behave in ways that injure markets and ultimately consumers.

This is something that we need to address

There is a bipartisan realization in the House and Senate that it is a very broken system

Do you believe that the McCarran-Ferguson Act should be repealed with respect to health insurers?

But, Mr. Conyers, for me it was the fact that I had to tell people that I did not know if they were going to get paid for the time they were at home.

The fact that many industries are now dominated by just a handful of very large firms attests to this failure of aggressive scrutiny.

So we should be especially skeptical about the potential detriment presented by a rapid succession of big mergers in a given industry.

There are people in prison for sentences that are void against the public policy of the United States.

There is a string of broken promises that could have been avoided if we wouldn't have permitted that merger.

I wanted to commend the creative inquiry of the gentlelady from Texas in examining this measure to make it clear to us, through her amendment, that this places disclosure burdens on trusts and asbestos victims but not on the corporations…