The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to our first hearing on Online Platforms and market power, focusing on the free and Diverse Press. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. In recent years, there has been a cascade of competition problems on the internet. Concentration in the Digital Marketing has pushed for journalism to the verge of extension. The acquisitions, growing innovation kills him, and high Network Effects and switching costs, appear to undermine entrepreneurship and startup rates. The sheer dominance of some platforms has resulted in the worst products, significantly less choice, leaving people without a competitive alternative to services that harvest the data, manipulative behavior to monetize her attention. Response to these trends, the committee will commit conduct a bipartisan the purpose of this investigation is to document anticompetitive combat conduct online. Examine and and assess whether the com
Today we will hear from department of transportation officials. The administrator of the federal railroad administration. The administrator of the federal Motor Carriers administration. And the deputy administrator of the national highway Traffic Safety administration. Welcome to each of you. Fixing americas surface transportation act of 2015 reauthorized many of the modal administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System. Fra. Ding fmcsa, nasa, and hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of and identify issues this committee should consider as we prepare for reauthorization. The act placed a greater focus on our nations multimodal freight i hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on efforts to improve infrastructure and how build grants are being utilized. Are the Commerce Committee considers reauthorizing the fast act, i plan on working with members on both sides of the aisle to auth
The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to our first hearing on Online Platforms and market power, focusing on the free and Diverse Press. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. In recent years, there has been a cascade of competition problems on the internet. Concentration in the Digital Marketing has pushed for journalism to the verge of extension. The acquisitions, growing innovation kills him, and high Network Effects and switching costs, appear to undermine entrepreneurship and startup rates. The sheer dominance of some platforms has resulted in the worst products, significantly less choice, leaving people without a competitive alternative to services that harvest the data, manipulative behavior to monetize her attention. Response to these trends, the committee will commit conduct a bipartisan the purpose of this investigation is to document anticompetitive combat conduct online. Examine and and assess whether the com
There were culture industry, there were Culture Committee hearing is 4 hours. If we cant. Is an here . I guess whichever. The meeting will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, we are at a very historic moment for our nation. Who would have thought of it even as soon as just a few years ago that we would have this golden opportunity to provide electricity that would motor our vehicles but was bringing on some serious questions and serious issues so that we know what it will take to make sure people in this country are well aware and will be able to take advantage and enjoy this movement, this Great Movement we are making to transition from petroleum to electricity. I want to welcome everyone to this hearing especially our witnesses because we are looking to you to tell us what this means. What does it mean for jobs . What is the impact that this will have in Rural America if we do not move and make sure those in Rural America can enjoy and be productive from the move we are making. Im s
There were culture industry, there were Culture Committee hearing is 4 hours. If we cant. Is an here . I guess whichever. The meeting will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, we are at a very historic moment for our nation. Who would have thought of it even as soon as just a few years ago that we would have this golden opportunity to provide electricity that would motor our vehicles but was bringing on some serious questions and serious issues so that we know what it will take to make sure people in this country are well aware and will be able to take advantage and enjoy this movement, this Great Movement we are making to transition from petroleum to electricity. I want to welcome everyone to this hearing especially our witnesses because we are looking to you to tell us what this means. What does it mean for jobs . What is the impact that this will have in Rural America if we do not move and make sure those in Rural America can enjoy and be productive from the move we are making. Im s