Maintain a competitive market. The Hudson Institute hosts the hourlong conversation from earlier this week. Good afternoon. My name is harold furchtgottroth. Im a fellow here at the Hudson Institute. Ill be your host for today. Thank you so much for joining us. We are very pleased and honored to have with us the honorable makan delrahim, assistant attorney general at the u. S. Department of justice. He needs no introduction. And he has been working in and around issues related to antitrust for a great deal of time. He has a very distinguished resume, which you can find at the department of justices website. Before we get started, i have two requests. One is if you could take your cell phone and put it on silent mode so that we dont have unnecessary interpretations of that sort. The second is for the q a session, we will have cards that you can write questions and those cards are going to be passed around. You can write your questions. Theyll be collected. And ill sort through those. We
Good afternoon. I am senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and i will be your host today. Has a very distinguished resume, which you can find at the department of justice website. Before we get started i have two requests. One is is if you could take your cell phones and put it on silent mode so that we dont have unnecessary interruptions of that sort. The second is for the q a session we will have cards that you can write questions, and those cards are going to be passed around and you can write your questions. They will be collected and i will sort through those. We particularly would like to welcome our cspan guests and other guests that are watching through various video links, as well as our online guests who are watching at the hudson website. For online and for our video guests, you, too, can submit questions, submit them to hashtag pets and events in those questions will be collected hudson events. Assistant attorney general delrahim computer had a distinguished tenure that has
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is harold furchtgottroth, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and i will be your host today. Thank you so much for joining us. We are very pleased and honored to have witnessed the honorable makan delrahim, the assistant attorney general at the u. S. Department of justice. He needs to introduction, and he has been working around issues related to antitrust for a great deal of time. He has a very distinguished resume which you can find at the department of justice website. Before we get started i have two requests. One is if you take your cell phone and put it on silent mode so that we dont have unnecessary interruptions of that sort. The second is for the q a session we will have cards that you can write questions, and those cards are going to be passed around and you can write your questions. They will be collected and i will sort through those. We particularly would like to welcome our cspan guests and or other guests that are watch
Welcome to this hearing on the subcommittee on antitrust policy and consumer rights. Today we are pleased to have with us the chairman of the federal trade commission, joseph simons, and the assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the department of justice, makan delrahim. Welcome to both of you. As an initial matter, as a matter of housekeeping, we have been informed we may have a block of more votes starting about an hour from now. The practical matter, we may be able to push it to an hour and a half from now, but before we hit the recess at some point we will likely have to go to recess to cast a few votes. We will have to play some of that by ear. I apologize in advance. Theres no way to predict these in advance. It does seem to be an uncanny event, with antitrust subcommittee hearings. It seems to be a good predictor, albeit an unintentional predictor of when votes are going to occur. As both of you know, ive been critical of the fact that we have two federal agen
Welcome to this hearing on the subcommittee on antitrust policy and consumer rights. Today we are pleased to have with us the chairman of the federal trade commission, joseph simons, and the assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the department of justice, makan delrahim. Welcome to both of you. As an initial matter, as a matter of housekeeping, we have been informed we may have a block of more votes starting about an hour from now. The practical matter, we may be able to push it to an hour and a half from now, but before we hit the recess at some point we will likely have to go to recess to cast a few votes. We will have to play some of that by ear. I apologize in advance. Theres no way to predict these in advance. It does seem to be an uncanny event, with antitrust subcommittee hearings. It seems to be a good predictor, albeit an unintentional predictor of when votes are going to occur. As both of you know, ive been critical of the fact that we have two federal agen