David Cicilline

We must send a strong message that these types of behaviors will not be tolerated and will be met with the full force of our law.

The Mueller Report found that, and I quote, the Russian Government interfered in the 2016 Presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion, end quote.

I am proud to support H.R. 3501, our Secure Our Democracy Act, which imposes sanctions on any foreign individual or entity who interferes in U.S. elections.

I am wondering whether your experiences in the Federal system, whether you had a similar experience that was sort of well planned before you were released so you would be successful.

It seems to me 200 miles, even 250 miles is still a very long distance to expect anyone to travel.

So, I am intrigued by this idea of both pre-sentence and post-sentence whether or not we ought to require sentencing judges and judges making determinations with respect to release to consider the impact on family.

I think one of the things that people need to understand, one of my most haunting memories was doing a school visit and seeing a fifth-grade boy clearly distracted, kind of not paying attention, and me kneeling down to ask him if he was…

I did not at all suggest that TikTok provided robust competition for Facebook.

Polling shows that only one in 20 Americans think tech should be the focus of government oversight.

Polling shows that online platforms have helped nearly 60 percent of Americans discover new small businesses.

The evidence suggests that the problem can be traced to changes in policy and particularly our antitrust enforcement that have allowed a few dominant corporations to consolidate markets.

America's independent businesses are in trouble. They are declining rapidly across many sectors of the economy and it's not because they can't compete.

I assure you that the committee is not bound by the characterizations of the witnesses about the nature of the markets or the lack of competition.

I think there needs to be serious scrutiny of the Amazon search engine.

I suggest that this subcommittee look into an email written by Mark Zuckerberg around the time of the Instagram acquisition where he stated, as has been reported in the press, that the purpose of this--and this is paraphrasing--was to…

I think there's a very simple reason for that: They've bought their competitors.

In retrospect, when you look back at the effects of these big cases, they loosened up the tech markets; they helped to contribute to an enormous boom in the tech and telecom markets that lasted and has lasted more than 30 years.

I think it is time for the reassertion of what I think have been incredibly successful policies from the last century, namely the antitrust laws and pro-competitive regulation on the model of the telecom laws and some of the FTC…

And so I would similarly ask you in the spirit of cooperation do you commit to not engage in those tactics in response to this investigation?

The final thing I want to just ask this committee's investigation is extremely important for the economy, for consumers, for those you represent.

Is the Gazelle Project still in place, Mr. Sutton?

Over the years various reporting has documented the aggressive and predatory business tactics that Amazon employs.

In 2004, Google's cofounder Larry Page said the purpose of Google is to have people come to Google, quickly find out what you want and to get you out of Google and get you to the right place as fast as possible.

But instead of seeing the fruits of her success, the next thing that happens is that this hardworking Rhode Islander discovers that Amazon has rolled out a direct replica of her product.

But the difference is Amazon is a $1 trillion company that runs an online platform with real-time data on millions of purchases and billions in commerce and can manipulate algorithms on its platform and favor its own product.