WASHINGTON, D.C. (4/1/2025) – Today, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights held a hearing to discuss regulations targeting leading American tech companies. This hearing was an opportunity to highlight the threats posed by harmful competition legislation and enforcement actions and caution lawmakers against repeating the mistakes of regulators abroad. But instead, lawmakers and witnesses testifying before the committee discussed regulations that would raise prices for consumers, stifle innovation, and make the United States less competitive on the global stage. The Don’t Break What Works campaign released a statement following the hearing:
“Today’s hearing included comments from some senators and testimony from groups that signaled their support for anti-competitive, anti-consumer policies that jeopardize essential investments in research and development and threaten to break products and services consumers love. This includes bills like the Advertising Middlemen Endangering Rigorous Internet Competition Act (AMERICA), which seeks to arbitrarily punish successful companies and would increase costs for small- and medium-sized businesses,” said Kate Brown, spokeswoman for the Don’t Break What Works campaign. “While the president has strongly pushed back against harmful policies targeting leading American tech companies – including foreign regulations like the European Union’s (EU) Digital Markets Act (DMA) – some testifying before the committee expressed support for the previous administration’s antitrust agenda, which sought to onshore foreign competition regulations that hurt consumers, chill innovation, and protect competitors from competition.”
“We urge lawmakers to reject efforts to bring DMA-style regulations here to the United States in the form of the AMERICA Act, American Innovation and Competition Online Act (AICOA), the Open App Markets Act (OAMA), and other harmful bills discussed during the hearing. These policies put popular, cost-saving digital products and services at risk and threaten America’s ability to continue to lead as an exporter of innovative technology. We are hopeful that lawmakers will reject regulations that threaten consumers and competition and champion policies that support American innovation,” she continued.
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