I want to thank Ranking Member klobuchar and her staff for working closely with me and my office as we prepared for today and i also want to thank our chairman, the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary committee, senator graham, for his support of this hearing. After i and then senator klobuchar giving our opening remarks, well hear from two panels of witnesses with questions from members of the subcommittee. We have Something Interesting to deal with in the senate and every time they call votes, when they call votes during a subcommittee hearing, were at their mercy. Senator klobuchar and i have both cast our votes on the first of a series of three or four. At some point, were going to have to pause or tag team as we allow other members to sit in for us, just dont be eisenhower sitting on a stone block in the direction of the greatest accomplishments the president of the United States and Supreme Commander of the forces him. Greg on welcome to todays hearing with the policy and Consu
But that thats more like i want to thank Ranking Member klobuchar and her staff for working closely with me and my office as we prepared for today and i also want to thank our chairman, the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary committee, senator graham, for his support of this hearing. After i and then senator klobuchar giving our opening remarks, well hear from two panels of witnesses with questions from members of the subcommittee. We have Something Interesting to deal with in the senate and every time they call votes, when they call votes during a subcommittee hearing, were at their mercy. Senator klobuchar and i have both cast our votes on the first of a series of three or four. At some point, were going to have to pause or tag team as we allow other members to sit in for us, just dont be alarmed if that happens. The focus of todays hearing is googles Online Advertising business. Whether its a monopolyist and whether it might have engaged in any conduct that harms competition and
Our chairman, the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary committee, senator graham, for his support of this hearing. After i and then senator klobuchar giving our opening remarks, well hear from two panels of witnesses with questions from members of the subcommittee. We have Something Interesting to deal with in the senate and every time they call votes, when they call votes during a subcommittee hearing, were at their mercy. Senator klobuchar and i have both cast our votes on the first of a series of three or four. At some point, were going to have to pause or tag team as we allow other members to sit in for us, just dont be alarmed if that happens. The focus of todays hearing is googles Online Advertising business. Whether its a monopolyist and whether it might have engaged in any conduct that harms competition and harms consumers. But before we go into that, i want to say just a few things about antitrust policy more broadly. Ive been a member of the subcommittee ever since 2011 when
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