Protecting consumers from antitrust violations is important.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Do you believe that the McCarran-Ferguson Act should be repealed with respect to health insurers?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California, Mr. Eric Swalwell. {time} 1515

I am prepared to close. I think the case has been made that the asbestos victims do not benefit from this bill, that there is no widespread fraud or abuse, that all of the victims and their organizations are, in fact, strongly opposed to…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 221, noes 199, not voting 10, as follows: [Roll No. 579] AYES--221…

I am pleased now to yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentlelady from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson).

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Atlanta, Georgia, Hank Johnson, and I would indicate his very deep concern for asbestos cancer victims.

I am pleased now to yield 3 minutes to the gentlelady from Houston, Texas, (Ms. Jackson Lee), a member of the Judiciary Committee.

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…

Members of the House, we are confronted with a very simple proposition today. What we have here is a piece of legislation that seeks to address a nonexistent problem and is strongly opposed by asbestos victims, the trusts charged with…

Thank you, Mr. Nadler, for your very important amendment. As has been reported by the Fifth Circuit in the First Appellate opinion upholding the product liability against a manufacturer of asbestos-containing products, the Government…

The Cohen amendment to limit the bill to asbestos trusts that do not have an internal fraud detection system is very appropriate. That is because, according to the Government Accountability Office, which has studied this and filed a…

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the leader of the Democratic Caucus, Ms. Pelosi.