FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT

Bills and resolutions

FTC: eliminate common carrier exemption for telecommunications companies in order to allow investigation of companies that enable illegal robocalling (see S. 2349), S5247 [31JY]

——— prohibit anticompetitive use of patents by drug product manufacturers (see S. 1416), S2770 [9MY] (see H.R. 4398), H7834 [19SE] (see H.R. 5133), H8958 [18NO]

Remarks in Senate

FTC: eliminate common carrier exemption for telecommunications companies in order to allow investigation of companies that enable illegal robocalling (S. 2349), S5252 [31JY]

——— prohibit anticompetitive use of patents by drug product manufacturers (S. 1416), S2870 [15MY], S3180 [4JN], S4488 [25JN], S4762, S4763 [10JY], S5009 [23JY], S5506 [17SE], S6217 [29OC], S6272 [30OC], S6368 [5NO], S6459 [7NO], S6497 [12NO], S6520–S6524, S6527 [13NO], S6640 [19NO], S6742 [21NO]

——— prohibit anticompetitive use of patents by drug product manufacturers (S. 1416), unanimous-consent request, S6521–S6523 [13NO], S6967, S6968 [11DE]

Reports filed

Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1416), S4676 [28JN]