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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
With us and former president ial candidate Mike Huckabee and chairman of Laffer Associates, art laffer. Weve got an amazing lineup. You dont want to miss it. The top story is china trade. U. S. China negotiations picking up again tomorrow. Robert lighthizer and Steven Mnuchin arriving in china, theyll meet tomorrow with chinas vice premier. Talks this time are around what theyre going to look at Agricultural Products and huawei technologies. Jack, i want to go to you first. A lot of controversy over huawei being included in these talks. Its so interesting, because seven months ago i dont think too few people knew what huawei was in america. Or how to pronounce it. Im still learning. What do you make of the new trade talks with lowered expectations. If youre a stock investor, i think this is a good starting point for you with expectations low. We had past talks where we expected a big, grand deal. I dont expect anyone talking about that now. Theyre talking about Agricultural Products an