[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3625-S3626]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 ANTITRUST CRIMINAL PENALTY ENHANCEMENT AND REFORM PERMANENT EXTENSION 
                                  ACT

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on the Judiciary be discharged and the Senate proceed to the 
immediate consideration of S. 3377.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 3377) to amend the Antitrust Criminal Penalty 
     Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 to repeal the sunset 
     provision.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged and the Senate 
proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill 
be considered read a third time.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read 
the third time.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I know of no further debate on the bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate?
  There being no further debate, the bill having been read the third 
time, the question is, Shall the bill pass?
  The bill (S. 3377) was passed, as follows

                                S. 3377

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Antitrust Criminal Penalty 
     Enhancement and Reform Permanent Extension Act''.

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     SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) Conspiracies among competitors to fix prices, rig bids, 
     and allocate markets are categorically and irredeemably 
     anticompetitive and contravene the competition policy of the 
     United States.
       (2) Cooperation incentives are important to the efforts of 
     the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice to 
     prosecute and deter the offenses described in paragraph (1).
       (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act, and the amendments 
     made by this Act, is to strengthen public and private 
     antitrust enforcement by providing incentives for antitrust 
     violators to cooperate fully with government prosecutors and 
     private litigants through the repeal of the sunset provision 
     of the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act 
     of 2004 (15 U.S.C. 1 note).

     SEC. 3. REPEAL OF SUNSET PROVISION.

       (a) In General.--Section 211 of the Antitrust Criminal 
     Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 (15 U.S.C. 1 note) 
     is repealed.
       (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Section 212 of 
     the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 
     2004 (15 U.S.C. 1 note) is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (6); and
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (7) as paragraph (6).

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the motion 
to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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