Written materials. You are the ema offices that required for all meetings. I expect all members to wear a mask expect when speaking. I recognize myself for an opening statement. More than a year ago, this subcommittee launched an investigation into Digital Markets. The twoives b have been to document problems and since then, weve received millions as well as conducting hundreds of hours of interviews. There were experts here, the subcommittees Ranking Member. We work closely with all members who have taken this work seriously and study the issues. This is the most bipartisan effort ive been involved with. The purpose of todays hearing is to examine the dominance of amaz amazon, apple, facebook and google. Amazon runs the Largest Online marketplace in america, c capturing 70 of all online marketplace sales. It operates across a vast array of businesses from cloud compute i ing. Apple is a provider of smart phones with more than 100 million in the United States alone. Services include fi
On twitter or facebook. Lets start with yesterdays hearing. Chairman of the house judiciary antitrust subcommittee kicking off this hearing in the opening remarks saying that he believes these Companies Need to be reined in. The practices have armful economic effects. They discourage entrepreneurship, destroy jobs, and degraded quality. Simply put, they have too much power. This power staves off new forms of competition, creativity, and innovation. While these firms produce individual products, the dominance is killing Small Businesses, manufacturing, and dynamism that our engines of the american economy. Several firms harvest and abuse peoples data to sell ads from everything to new books and dangerous miracle cures. They cant run away fast enough. There is no escape from the surveillance because there is no alternative. People are stuck with bad options. Open markets are predicated on the idea that if a company harms people, consumers, workers, and Business Partners will choose anoth
Industry. They took questions about the use of thirdparty seller data and allegations of anticonservative bias. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Welcome to todays hearing on marketing power. Amazon, apple, facebook, and google. I would like to remind members we have established a distribution list dedicated to circulating specific motions or other written materials members might want as part of our hearing today. If you would like to submit materials, submit them to the email address distributed to your offices. We will circulate materials as quickly as we can. Thatld also remind members face coverings are required for all meetings in an enclosed space such as Committee Hearings. I expect all members on both sides of the aisle to wear a mask except when you are speaking. I recognize myself for an opening bateman Opening Statement. This committee launched an investigation into Digital Markets to document compe
Taken by the Federal Reserve the path depends of course on the virus it societies the crisis will weigh heavily in the medium term and poses keshl risk, very much a carbon copy, just a couple additions here and from the year, there was one other change that i will tell you about. It was that the path of the economy will depend significantly on the course of the virus. Kelly . We appreciate it. Were going to welcome in our fed panel. Mona hodges, david kelly and jim carron its great to have you all here. Ill go to you, dave, for what you think are the most important messages as we watch the markets so far showing little change from where we saw before the decision came out. Really whats happened since their june meeting is we have seen a surprisingly strong bounce, but then the viruses come back, and that resurgence is what theyre saying is this is not over we know its very uncertainty. The economy has a lot of recovery to do yet, and theyre going to remain very dovish while the pandemi
Thank corwin and colea for staffing at sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed copies of any speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the july 16 board of supervisors calendar unless otherwise suggested. Chair ronen can i have a motion to take items 1, 2, and 3 together . Supervisor walton so moved. Chair ronen thank you. So moved. [gavel]. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, can you please read items 1, 2, and 3 together. Clerk yes. [agenda item read] [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. Chair ronen thank you so much. We have kate connor from the Planning Department and kate hartley from the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to make brief presentations, but before they do, colleagues, would you like to make any opening remarks . Nope . Oh, supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer thank you, chair ronen. So i just wanted to say good morning to my colleag