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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 ....
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The subcommittee will come to order. The chairman will be able to call recess. Good morning and thank you to todays witnesses. In addition to the integration of the entrance of drones into the airspace, they provide challenges to aviation safety. Legislation set to a Solid Foundation to improve the nations safety. Is ans hearing opportunity to get the public perspective on current challenges and risks of our aviation system. This testimony will also shape our priorities as we continue our investigation into the boeing 737 max and into the and itst of the faa authorization bill. For the sake of time, i am going to speak first about the panel number two and then shift to the first panel. Later, we will hear from the first panel. In the fall, we will discuss the faa preauthorization act. Their testimony will help us prioritize. Testify ntsb when they about recommendations outlined in the most wanted list of safety improvement, we w ....