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Wednesday, February 24, 2021 With a new presidential administration promising vigorous antitrust enforcement, and a new Democratic majority in Congress seeking to make drastic changes to U.S. antitrust laws, the technology and healthcare industries have found themselves the main targets of increased antitrust scrutiny.  Though companies engaging in government contracting, particularly in the aerospace and defense industries, already have had to deal with a range of antitrust issues – for example, the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (the “DOJ”) launched the Procureme...

Brought in, and yet the workers, so many of them in temporary status, so many of them not sharing profits, health care issues, there's all kinds of things, and you've got to be able to have shared prosperity not only with that company but really across america. and that's why i favor increasing the minimum wage and why we have to do something about antitrust enforcement. that's the subject of the hearing that i co-chaired today. there has to be more balance here in our economy so everyone will share in the prosperity that is something that donald trump has not delivered for these people that h...

I don't think you can go to michigan and not meet with them right now. here they are, we've seen some really hefty profits the gm has brought in, and yet the workers, so many of them in temporary status, so many of them not sharing profits, health care issues, there's all kind of things you have to be able to have shared prosperity, not only with that company but really across america. and that's why i favor increasing the minimum wage and why we have to do something about antitrust enforcement. that was the subject of the hearing that i co-chaired today. there has to be more balance here in o...

Polls, health care is a top issue. 290 million americans already have coverage, the vast, vast majority of people. what they're worried about is affordability. joe biden does two things on affordability. one is this medicare drug negotiation price and the other is more antitrust enforcement of hospitals that are raising -- have local monopolies and raising prices. but it's not a comprehensive cost approach. i still think there's no democrat who has gone out with a comprehensive affordability platform. i do think such a platform would say four things. drugs has to be one of it, but for the whol...

Mind. google and facebook didn't exist when specifically the laws governing free speech on social media were established. >> things like the communications dee sensesy act. >> exactly. >> but putting guardrails around microsoft may have contributed to the emergence of some of these companies we see now. do you think that the guardrails or whatever you want to call them suggested by somebody like elizabeth warren, do they make sen sense? is that a good starting point? >> i think the antitrust enforcement, we have antitrust laws for a reason and they're the product of another era when there were...