Amy Klobuchar

I just want to dispel this notion... that this is not a monopoly.

We have made headway... to help our antitrust enforcers.

Clearly, there is not transparency when no one knows who sets the fees.

We would be kidding ourselves if we said it did not exist

Transparency would be helpful to know what the fees are.

To me, like if you cannot go to anyone else, what are you going to do?

Mr. Mickelson, have you seen Live Nation leveraging its power as the leading concert promoter to pressure venues to use Ticketmaster for primary ticketing? How are they able to do that?

I will start with you, Ms. Bradish. As a former antitrust attorney who studied these markets, do you agree that the ticketing market was more competitive when Ticketmaster was competing with Live Nation as separate companies?

Senator Klobuchar's proposed Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act is a leading example.

This is clearly a bipartisan endeavor.

It was about competition and our economy that goes way beyond the ticketing industry.

We are very interested in actually doing something and not just throwing popcorn.

I think another solution might be maybe no exclusive ticketing contracts at buildings.

I think for both discriminatory conduct and mergers, we need to step back a bit.

I appreciate the support of the United States Senate on this front, Democrats and Republicans.

Our goal here, regardless of what State people are from or what party that they belong to, is to give them that experience.

With Ticketmaster's market power, which we all know exists--we would be kidding ourselves if we said it did not exist--why have you not done more to reduce fees?

I think this was a good hearing because we had Senators on both sides of the aisle making very valid points about competition.

There you go. A good invitation.

I think we can legislate on some of these things about pricing, but if you truly have a situation where you have a monopoly...

Should Congress mandate all-in pricing on ticketing platforms so that the full ticket price is disclosed up front?

I just want to dispel this notion... that this is not a monopoly, and then we can go from there about solutions.

Clearly, there is not transparency when no one knows who sets the fees.

We have an active Justice Department now and FTC. We have provided them funding because we actually know they bring money in when they do their job.

Transparency would be helpful to know what the fees are. Is that right?