House progressives appear poised for a showdown with their own leadership team as Democrats steamroll toward a Monday vote on a Senate-passed infrastructure bill that is a key part of President Biden’s agenda.
Those lawmakers, chairs of the House Judiciary committee and subcommittee on antitrust, ushered six antitrust bills targeting tech giants through marathon markup last week with the help of the top Republican on the subcommittee, Rep. Ken Buck
“Congress needs to provide additional tools and resources to our antitrust enforcers to go after Big Tech companies engaging in anticompetitive conduct,” Buck said after the ruling, highlighting some bipartisan consensus.
The bills would provide a new set of standards for the FTC and its new chair Lina Khan
“There would have been an entirely different regulatory framework in place, and it would circumvent lots of the issues that the judge found troubling,” former FTC chair William Kovacic told The Hill.