GOP senators demand oversight hearing into Obama FTC's deal with Google

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Three senators are demanding the Senate Judiciary Committee convene a hearing examining new alarm over the Obama-era Federal Trade Commission's decision not to take antitrust action against Google a decade ago.

Their request comes after new reporting by POLITICO showed the FTC declined to act despite evidence of potential violations of the law that came to light in the agency’s 19-month investigation into the search giant.

POLITICO, which published its reports this week, had obtained hundreds of pages of previously undisclosed confidential documents about the case.

Republican Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri, Mike Lee of Utah and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee sent letters Thursday to Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and acting FTC Chair Rebecca Kelly Slaughter demanding a public session to “conduct oversight into enforcement — or underenforcement — of our nation’s antitrust laws,” including testimony from top Google executives and then-FTC commissioners.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senators-demand-oversight-hearing-121851976.html

Three of the most ridiculous Senators around. Maybe you can hold a hearing on why LBJ did what he did and Franklin Roosevelt as well.

[Skittles]

1. LOLOL

Biden must be doing REALLY well if they're having to bypass Hillary and go straight back to OBAMA for red meat for their stupid voters

[Midnight Writer]

2. I'd like to see an investigation into the Nixon DOJ policy that a sitting POTUS can't be charged.

Why the hell does a memo from a disgraced President's Justice Department 50 years ago still tie our hands today?

[JDC]

3. They must be worried about Net Neutrality making a comeback

[Walleye]

4. They just want to force private companies to publish their lies and propaganda. We see what they're

Trying to do. Bunch of whiny little babies

[cyclonefence]

5. Well of course they do, bless their hearts

[bluestarone]

6. How does that saying go?

They can want in one hand and SHIT in the other.

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7. Did they stamp their little feet and shake their little fists?

And why didn't they do this last year if they're so concerned?

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8. Demand in one hand and shit in the other, kids. See which one fills up first.

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but you're not running things anymore.

[abqtommy]

9. Hasn't the statute of limitations run out on the Barack "I Look Better In A Tan Suit Than

Any reTHUG" Obama administration? asking for a friend

[Bev54]

10. Really??? They couldn't have done that when they had a majority for the past several years???

[malaise]

11. THIS