[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 19 (Monday, January 30, 2023)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E70]
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RECOGNIZING SLADE BOND AND HIS SERVICE TO THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

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                          HON. JERROLD NADLER

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, January 30, 2023

  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I rise along with Rep. David Cicilline, 
longtime Chair of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and 
Administrative Law, to thank Slade Bond for his service to the 
Committee on the Judiciary.
  Slade came to the Committee after serving as legislative counsel to 
Representative Hank Johnson. Prior to that, Slade was a law clerk for 
the Center for Democracy and Technology. Slade received his B.A. from 
Mary Washington College, his J.D. from the University of Kansas School 
of Law, and his LL.M from the George Washington University Law School.
  Slade joined the Committee in March 2014, serving as Democratic 
Counsel and then Chief Democratic Counsel for the Subcommittee on 
Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law. For the past 4 years, 
Slade has served as Chief Counsel for the Subcommittee on Antitrust, 
Commercial, and Administrative Law.
  Throughout his service on the Committee, Slade has provided Members 
and staff with strategic advice and leadership on a range of legal and 
policy issues related to competition, bankruptcy, arbitration, 
commercial contracts, and federal agencies. Slade also has acted as a 
generous mentor and advisor for junior colleagues on the Committee, 
setting an example as a superlative staff member.
  During his tenure as Chief Counsel for the Antitrust Subcommittee, 
Slade applied his keen intellect, conscientiousness, and creativity to 
advance the priorities of the Subcommittee. Slade supervised staff and 
led Member preparation for over two dozen hearings and markups, 
including a 29-hour markup that resulted in Committee passage of a 
suite of six bills to restore competition online.
  Notable among his many accomplishments is his leadership of a 
historic, 16-month, top-to-bottom investigation of competition in 
digital markets. Slade assembled a dedicated team of counsels, 
technologists, fellows, special assistants, and clerks to examine the 
dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google in the digital 
economy. He coordinated and supervised the team's review of nearly 1.3 
million documents; interviews with more than 240 market participants, 
former employees of the investigated platforms, and other individuals; 
and holding of 7 hearings with testimony from 38 witnesses, including a 
hearing with the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. In 
addition, Slade cowrote, and managed the drafting of, the culmination 
of this investigation: a 450-page report entitled ``Investigation of 
Competition in Digital Markets: Majority Staff Report and 
Recommendations,'' which the Committee adopted in April 2021 and 
published in June 2022.
  Slade has developed a well-earned reputation for his excellent work 
with Members and staff from both parties, in both the House and the 
Senate, to shepherd important bills into law. These bills include 
legislation to reduce the cost of antitrust enforcement to taxpayers by 
modernizing merger filing fees, to protect our national security by 
requiring merging parties to disclose subsidies from foreign economic 
adversaries, to preserve the resources of state antitrust enforcers by 
exempting state enforcement of the federal antitrust laws from private 
multidistrict litigation, and to prohibit the enforceability of 
predispute arbitration agreements and non-disclosure agreements related 
to sexual-assault or sexual-harassment disputes.
  The Committee, and Congress, will greatly miss Slade, but we look 
forward to working with him in his new role as Deputy Assistant 
Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of 
Legislative Affairs.
  We thank Slade for his tireless work ethic, acute attention to 
detail, impeccable work product, and enthusiasm for the mission of the 
Committee to ensure economic justice for American consumers, workers, 
and small businesses.

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