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On the recordSeptember 16, 2014
If the electric utility company in question decided to get into the business of providing its own air conditioning equipment to its rate payers, if it did that and then engaged in practices that favored its own system as compared to others, would not antitrust laws be equipped to handle that?
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Senator Lee questions the role of antitrust laws in regulating utility companies' practices.

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