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Jun 14, 2021 | 7:19 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) â Republican Senators Mike Lee and Chuck Grassley introduced a bill on Tuesday that would move all antitrust enforcement to the Justice Department, stripping the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission of antitrust authority, Leeâs office said on Monday.
The Justice Departmentâs Antitrust Division and the FTC currently divide up the work of antitrust enforcement, with the FCC weighing in on telecommunications deals.
There is no companion legislation in the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives. Democrats control the evenly divided Senate because of Vice President Kamala Harrisâ tie-breaking vote.
The measure, introduced by Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Lee, the top Republican on the committeeâs antitrust panel, would also ban any merger that results in a market share of more than 66 percent unless needed to pr
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Kristen Clarke’s nomination to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on Thursday.
In the wake of the Committee’s 11-11 vote, Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) now can send Clarke’s nomination to the floor in a bid to make her the first Black woman to hold that post. No Republicans voted in her favor, subjecting the nominee to vitriolic attacks by Republican Senators
Mike Lee of Utah and
Ted Cruz of Texas depicting her as “extreme” and insinuating that she has associated with people who hold antisemitic views.
Sen.
Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) strongly pushed back against that innuendo shortly before the vote, pointing to the full-throated backing she has received by the National Council of Jewish Women, the Anti-Defamation League, the Union for Reformed Judaism, and 79 local, state, national, Jewish organizations.
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Kristen Clarke’s nomination to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on Thursday.
In the wake of the Committee’s 11-11 vote, Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) now can send Clarke’s nomination to the floor in a bid to make her the first Black woman to hold that post. No Republicans voted in her favor, subjecting the nominee to vitriolic attacks by Republican Senators
Mike Lee of Utah and
Ted Cruz of Texas depicting her as “extreme” and insinuating that she has associated with people who hold antisemitic views.