Columbia law school, an expert on antitrust, copyright and Communications Law and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, including the master switch in the curse of bigness. Professor wu has twice been part of the politico list of 50 individuals transforming american politics and was named to the American Academy of arts and sciences in 2017. He received his bachelors of science from mcgill university. Fiona scott morton, a professor at the University School of management. Nationally recognized as a leading scholar and published articles in leading economic journals. From 2011 to 2012 she served as Deputy Assistant attorney general at the United States department of justice where she helped enforce the nations antitrust laws. The third witness on our panel is stacy mitchell, codirector of the institute for local self reliance. She spent years working with policymakers and grassroots organizations to help develop city, state, and federal policies to strengthen independent
The subcommittee will come to order. I again want to apologize to our witnesses. This is historic action on the house floor that has taken a number of Committee Members away from the committee. But i would like to get started. Our second panel of witnesses, the first witness on our second panel is timothy wu, the julius silver professor of law at columbia law school, an expert on antitrust, copyright and Communications Law and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, including the master switch in the curse of bigness. Professor wu has twice been part of the politico list of 50 individuals transforming american politics and was named to the American Academy of arts and sciences in 2017. He received his bachelors of science from mcgill university. Fiona scott morton, a professor at the University School of management. Nationally recognized as a leading scholar and published articles in leading economic journals. From 2011 to 2012 she served as Deputy Assistant attorney gene
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Bills under consideration later will conclude that the authorization funding for nasa. You can see that live on our companionate network cspan. In case you missed it here are clips from cspans programming this past week with former bright Vice President joe biden awarding him the congressional patriot award. I have been covered by the best in the business and some of the worst, some of you press guys are lousy like some senators are lousy, like doctors are lousy, lawyers are lousy, but it doesnt matter. We should never challenge the basic truths that an independent and free press is the fundamental element in functioning our democracy. From the house floor Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy on the portable care act. We watch in the aca created 23 coops and provided more than 2 billion, 18 of those 23 have collapsed. Yes, for the last six years we have been holding hearings. We have been listening to the public and we have been working on this bill. Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps at a