FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Amendments

Business and industry: promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources (H.R. 3843), consideration (H. Res. 1396), H8177 [28SE]

Power resources: authorize President to issue Energy Emergency Declaration to protect gasoline and home heating fuel prices from price-gouging (H.R. 7688), H5189, H5190 [19MY]

Articles and editorials

Don’t Defund the (Antitrust) Police, H8259 [29SE]

Lina Khan’s Unfair and Deceptive Approach to Antitrust, H8261 [29SE]

Tech Hawks Meet Resistance to a ‘‘Modest Proposal’’, H8259 [29SE]

Bills and resolutions

Abortion: prescribe rules prohibiting disinformation in advertising of abortion services (see S. 4469), S3159 [23JN] (see H.R. 8210), H5877 [23JN]

Advertising: prohibit targeted advertising by advertising facilitators and advertisers (see S. 3520), S351 [19JA] (see H.R. 6416), H216 [18JA]

——— prohibit unfair and deceptive advertising of rates for hotel rooms and other places of short-term lodging (see H.R. 8261), H5929 [1JY]

Agriculture: require original equipment manufacturers to make available certain documentation, parts, software, and tools for electronics-enabled agricultural implements (see S. 3549), S442 [1FE]

Air pollution: promote low-carbon, high-octane fuels to protect public health and to improve vehicle efficiency and performance (see S. 4621), S3694 [26JY]

Aviation: eliminate exemption of air carriers from authority and prohibit certain unfair and deceptive acts and practices relative to air carrier delays (see H.R. 8698), H7557 [9AU]

Bureau of Digital Services Oversight and Safety: establish (see H.R. 6796), H1131 [18FE]

Business and industry: make price gouging unlawful, expand FTC ability to seek permanent injunctions and equitable relief, and require companies disclose costs and pricing strategies in SEC filings (see S. 4214), S2493 [12MY] (see H.R. 7736), H4919 [12MY]

——— permit voluntary economic coordination, cooperation, agreement, or other association, compact, contract, or covenant entered into by or between any individual or group of individuals (see S. 4966), S5052 [27SE]

——— prohibit certain anticompetitive mergers, allow rejection of proposed acquisitions, and implement procedures for reviews and breaking up anticompetitive consummated acquisitions (see S. 3847), S1225 [16MR] (see H.R. 7101), H3775 [16MR]

——— promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources (H.R. 3843), consideration (see H. Res. 1396), H8219 [28SE]

——— require commercial websites and mobile apps to create simple and readable summary of their terms-of-service agreements (see S. 3501), S220 [13JA] (see H.R. 6407), H194 [13JA]

——— require disclosure of foreign government subsidies in premerger notification process (see S. 4322), S2751 [26MY]

Classified information: authorize appropriate disclosure of classified information to Members of Congress equally and provide whistleblower protections to journalist and cybersecurity experts who disclose such information (see H.R. 8533), H7254 [27JY]

Commissioners: prohibit from continuing in office after expiration of term (see H.R. 9048), H8314 [29SE]

Consumers: conduct education campaign to inform public about resources available when their safety and security has been violated online (see H.R. 6786), H1130 [18FE]

——— protect from price-gouging of gasoline and other fuels (see S. 3920), S1774 [24MR] (see H.R. 7463), H4432 [7AP]

——— provide authority to seek equitable remedies for unfair or deceptive trade practices (see S. 4145), S2339 [4MY]

——— provide consumers with foundational data privacy rights, create strong oversight mechanisms, and establish meaningful enforcement (see H.R. 8152), H5733 [21JN]

——— request President to provide documents to House of Representatives relative to communications and directives with FTC (see H. Res. 1261), H7169 [26JY]

Courts: provide private right of action for small business owners harmed by corporations who violate FTC franchise rule (see H.R. 6551), H330 [1FE]

Dept. of HHS: direct Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation to conduct annual study on health care competition and consolidation at State level (see H.R. 8130), H5645 [16JN]

——— establish Office of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Well-Being (see H.R. 8524), H7254 [27JY]

Disasters: clarify prohibition on excessive and unjustified price increases in sale of certain products and services when emergency or disaster results in abnormal disruptions of market (see S. 3839), S1178 [15MR] (see H.R. 9284), H8441 [10NO]

Electronics: require original manufacturers of digital electronic equipment to make available certain documentation, diagnostic, and repair information to consumers and independent repair providers (see S. 3830), S1153 [14MR]

Financial services and general Government: making appropriations (see S. 4685), S3783 [28JY] (see H.R. 8254), H5923 [28JN]

Firearms: conduct investigation, report to Congress, and issue regulations on unfair or deceptive acts or practices in advertising or marketing of firearms (see H.R. 8570), H7404 [28JY]

Food industry: investigate and report on anticompetitive practices and violations of antitrust law in beef packing industry (see S.J. Res. 47), S2620 [19MY]

FTC and NSF: support research about impact of digital communication platforms on society by providing privacy-protected, secure pathways for independent research on data held by large social media companies (see S. 5339), S9778 [21DE]

GAO: evaluate effects of anticompetitive contracting clauses in contracts between health insurers and health care providers and assess FTC and Dept. of Justice antitrust enforcement actions relative to such clauses (see H.R. 8135), H5645 [16JN]

Gasoline: conduct investigation and report to Congress on gasoline prices (see H.R. 7550), H4452 [21AP]

Health: protect privacy of personal reproductive or sexual health information (see S. 4434), S3003 [16JN] (see H.R. 8111), H5644 [16JN]

Health care facilities: give oversight authority over certain non-profit hospitals (see H.R. 8129), H5645 [16JN]

——— make hospital organizations and cooperative hospital service organizations subject to antitrust enforcement relative to unfair methods of competition (see H.R. 9510), H9729 [13DE]

Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Inc.: extend authority (see H.R. 9132), H8378 [4OC]

Information technology: establish centralized system to allow individuals to request simultaneous deletion of their personal information across all data brokers (see S. 3627), S646 [10FE] (see H.R. 6752), H1123 [15FE]

——— establish task force for purposes of studying effects of automated social media accounts, known as ‘‘bots,’’ on public discourse and elections (see H.R. 8407), H6706 [18JY]

——— prohibit data brokers from selling, reselling, trading, licensing, or otherwise providing for consideration lists of military servicemembers to covered nations (see S. 4281), S2620 [19MY]

——— promote competition and reduce gatekeeper power in app economy, increase choice and quality, and reduce costs for consumers (see H.R. 7030), H1422 [9MR]

——— require impact assessments of automated decision systems and augmented critical decision processes (see S. 3572), S523 [3FE] (see H.R. 6580), H946 [3FE]

Insurance: establish requirements for disclosure of certain information relative to health care sharing ministries (see H.R. 8324), H5945 [11JY]

Internet: increase consumer choice by requiring large online communications platforms to make services interoperable with other platforms, make user data portable, and allow third-party services to manage account settings (see S. 4309), S2708 [25MY]

Petroleum: ensure transparent and competitive transportation fuel markets in order to protect consumers from unwarranted price increases (see S. 4217), S2493 [12MY] (see H.R. 7800), H5097 [17MY]

Pharmacies: prevent unfair and deceptive acts or practices and dissemination of false information relative to pharmacy benefit management services for prescription drugs (see S. 4293), S2664 [24MY]

Political campaigns: prohibit email service providers from using filtering algorithms to flag emails from political campaigns that consumers have elected to receive as spam (see S. 4409), S2968 [15JN] (see H.R. 8160), H5733 [21JN]

Power resources: authorize President to issue Energy Emergency Declaration to protect gasoline and home heating fuel prices from price-gouging (see H.R. 7688), H4722 [6MY]

——— authorize President to issue Energy Emergency Declaration to protect gasoline and home heating fuel prices from price-gouging (H.R. 7688), consideration (see H. Res. 1124), H5096 [17MY]

——— conduct study on conduct relative to oil and gas prices (see S. 4048), S2091 [7AP]

——— investigate and report on practices in oil and gas industry (see S. 4049), S2091 [7AP]

Privacy: prohibit data brokers from selling and transferring health and location data (see S. 4408), S2968 [15JN] (see H.R. 9161), H8385 [7OC]

Proprietary Education Interagency Oversight Coordination Committee: establish (see S. 5155), S6905 [30NO]

Sewage disposal: issue regulations requiring certain products to have ‘‘Do Not Flush’’ labeling (see S. 3956), S1867 [30MR]

Taxation: deny any deduction for advertising and marketing directed at children to promote consumption of food of poor nutritional quality (see S. 5086), S6695 [15NO] (see H.R. 9299), H8507 [15NO]

Technology: identify content-agnostic platform interventions to reduce harm of algorithmic amplification and social media addiction on covered platforms (see S. 3608), S612 [9FE]

——— require disclosure of camera or recording capability in certain Internet-connected devices (see S. 5127), S6779 [17NO]

Telephones: revise ‘‘do-not-call’’ registry regulations to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls (see H.R. 6606), H976 [4FE]

Cloture motions

Bedoya, Alvaro M.: nomination to FTC, S2073 [7AP], S2371 [9MY], S2429 [11MY]

Letters

Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act: Representative Pallone, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House), H5181 [19MY]

——— Representative Robert C. ‘‘Bobby’’ Scott, Committee on Education and Labor (House), H5181 [19MY]

Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act: Chris Jones, National Grocers Association, H8256 [29SE]

——— Diana Moss, American Antitrust Institute, H8256 [29SE]

——— Evan Jenkins, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, H8173 [28SE]

——— several organizations, H8256 [29SE]

Open App Markets Act: Benjamin Ismail and Charlie Smith, GreatFire (organization), S536 [7FE]

——— several organizations, S535 [7FE]

Lists

Organizations supporting H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, H8174 [28SE]

Votes recorded by proxy on Demings amendment to H.R. 7688, Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act, H5192 [19MY]

Votes recorded by proxy on H. Res. 1124, consideration of H.R. 7688, Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act, H5137 [18MY]

Votes recorded by proxy on H. Res. 1396, consideration of H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, H8179 [28SE]

Votes recorded by proxy on H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, H8269 [29SE]

Votes recorded by proxy on H.R. 7688, Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act, H5195 [19MY]

Votes recorded by proxy on Pappas amendment to H.R. 7688, Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act, H5193 [19MY]

Votes recorded by proxy on previous question to H. Res. 1124, consideration of H.R. 7688, Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act, H5136 [18MY]

Votes recorded by proxy on previous question to H. Res. 1396, consideration of H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, H8178 [28SE]

Votes recorded by proxy on Westerman motion to recommit H.R. 7688, Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act, H5194 [19MY]

Motions

Bedoya, Alvaro M.: nomination to FTC, S1829 [29MR]

Power resources: authorize President to issue Energy Emergency Declaration to protect gasoline and home heating fuel prices from price-gouging (H.R. 7688), H5193 [19MY]

Notices

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) tie vote on nomination of Alvaro M. Bedoya to FTC, S987 [3MR]

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) tie vote on S. 4145, Consumer Protection Remedies Act, S2746 [26MY]

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) tie vote on S. 4217, Transportation Fuel Market Transparency Act, S2746 [26MY]

Estimated budget effects of H.R. 4081, Informing Consumers About Smart Devices Act, H8217 [28SE]

Press releases

Republican Senators Urge House Republicans To Support Antitrust Reform Package: Senator Lee, H8258 [29SE]

Remarks in House

Biden, President: evaluation of administration relative to economy, H1021 [8FE]

Business and industry: promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources (H.R. 3843), H8226, H8230, H8252–H8264 [29SE]

——— promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources (H.R. 3843), consideration (H. Res. 1396), H8170–H8179 [28SE]

Consumers: increase protections relative to free trial, automatic renewal, and negative option offers for subscription-based services, H4513 [27AP]

——— prohibit different pricing of consumer products and services that are substantially similar if different pricing is based on gender of individuals to whom products or services are intended or marketed (H.R. 3853), H4010 [31MR]

Drugs: ban use of ingredients or flavor additives in marijuana-infused products, H4030 [31MR]

——— require child-resistant packaging and warning labels detailing dangers posed to pregnant women and unborn babies for marijuana products, H4030 [31MR]

Financial services and general Government: making appropriations, H6733, H6734, H6737, H6740, H6850, H6851, H6853, H6854 [19JY], H6892–H6895, H6902 [20JY], E760 [20JY]

Health: protect privacy of personal reproductive or sexual health information (H.R. 8111), H5831 [23JN], H8578 [17NO]

Information technology: provide for reporting relative to cross-border complaints involving ransomware or other cyber-related attacks (H.R. 4551), H7115, H7116 [26JY], H7197, H7223 [27JY]

Office of Fair Lending Testing: establish to test for compliance with laws prohibiting credit discrimination, strengthen such laws, and provide criminal penalties for violations of such laws, H5568 [15JN], H5815 [22JN]

Petroleum: ensure transparent and competitive transportation fuel markets in order to protect consumers from unwarranted price increases, H5190, H5191 [19MY]

Power resources: authorize President to issue Energy Emergency Declaration to protect gasoline and home heating fuel prices from price-gouging (H.R. 7688), H4863 [12MY], H4956 [13MY], H4974 [16MY], H5017 [17MY], H5179–H5195 [19MY], H5638 [16JN], H5745 [22JN], H6665 [15JY], H7076 [26JY]

——— authorize President to issue Energy Emergency Declaration to protect gasoline and home heating fuel prices from price-gouging (H.R. 7688), consideration (H. Res. 1124), H5127–H5137 [18MY]

——— determine if price of gasoline is being manipulated by reducing refinery capacity or other form of market manipulation or artificially increased by price gouging practices, H5189 [19MY]

States: enhance cooperation with State attorneys general to combat unfair and deceptive practices (H.R. 1766), H8229 [29SE]

Technology: require disclosure of camera or recording capability in certain Internet-connected devices (H.R. 4081), H8153, H8154 [28SE], H8280 [29SE]

Remarks in Senate

Abortion: prescribe rules prohibiting disinformation in advertising of abortion services (S. 4469), S4020–S4022 [4AU]

——— prescribe rules prohibiting disinformation in advertising of abortion services (S. 4469), unanimous-consent request, S4021, S4022 [4AU]

Bedoya, Alvaro M.: nomination to FTC, S2073 [7AP], S2118 [25AP], S2141 [26AP], S2174 [27AP], S2387 [10MY], S2444 [11MY]

——— nomination to FTC, motion to discharge, S1828, S1829, S1839, S1840 [29MR], S1842 [30MR]

——— nomination to FTC, unanimous-consent agreement, S2143 [26AP]

Biden, President: evaluation of administration relative to political nominees, S2387 [10MY]

Business and industry: promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources, S2472 [12MY], S10073 [22DE]

——— promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources (H.R. 3843), S7050–S7052 [8DE]

——— promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources (H.R. 3843), unanimous-consent request, S7051 [8DE]

——— reform antitrust laws to protect competition, modify standard for unlawful acquisitions, deter anticompetitive exclusionary practices, and enhance ability of Federal agencies to enforce antitrust laws, S7051 [8DE]

——— require disclosure of foreign government subsidies in premerger notification process, S7051 [8DE]

Consumers: urge stricter enforcement of regulations relative to online ticket sales, S6885 [30NO]

FTC: urge stricter enforcement of regulations relative to online ticket sales, S6885 [30NO]

Gasoline: conduct investigation on gasoline prices, S2202 [28AP]

Health: protect privacy of personal reproductive or sexual health information (S. 4434), S3591 [21JY]

Information technology: prohibit certain discriminatory conduct by covered platforms (S. 2992), S2472, S2473 [12MY], S2691, S2692 [25MY], S3497–S3502 [19JY], S3680–S3684 [26JY]

——— promote competition and reduce gatekeeper power in app economy, increase choice and quality, and reduce costs for consumers (S. 2710), S535–S537 [7FE], S6953 [5DE], S7280 [19DE], S9748 [21DE]

Petroleum: ensure transparent and competitive transportation fuel markets in order to protect consumers from unwarranted price increases (S. 4217), S2727 [26MY]

——— ensure transparent and competitive transportation fuel markets in order to protect consumers from unwarranted price increases (S. 4217), unanimous-consent request, S2929, S2930 [14JN]

——— gasoline price levels, S2173 [27AP], S2344 [5MY]

Pharmacies: prevent unfair and deceptive acts or practices and dissemination of false information relative to pharmacy benefit management services for prescription drugs (S. 4293), S3021 [21JN], S5133 [28SE]

Political campaigns: prohibit email service providers from using filtering algorithms to flag emails from political campaigns that consumers have elected to receive as spam (S. 4409), S2969 [15JN]

Power resources: authorize President to issue Energy Emergency Declaration to protect gasoline and home heating fuel prices from price-gouging (H.R. 7688), S2600, S2628, S2629, S2630 [19MY]

Presidential appointments: Senate process for confirmation of political nominees, S2466 [12MY]

Proprietary Education Interagency Oversight Coordination Committee: establish (S. 5155), S7273 [19DE]

Senate: legislative priorities, S2135 [26AP]

Sports: improve integrity and safety of horseracing by requiring uniform anti-doping and medication control program enforced by independent Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, S9765 [21DE]

States: enhance cooperation with State attorneys general to combat unfair and deceptive practices (H.R. 1766), S6052 [29SE]

Reports filed

American Choice and Innovation Online Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 3816) (H. Rept. 117–655), H9982 [21DE]

American Data Privacy and Protection Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 8152) (H. Rept. 117–669), H10545 [30DE]

American Innovation and Choice Online Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2992), S950 [2MR]

Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 1628), S7251 [15DE]

Consideration of H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1396) (H. Rept. 117–507), H8219 [28SE]

Consideration of H.R. 7688, Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1124) (H. Rept. 117–333), H5096 [17MY]

Fair Lending for All Act: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 166) (H. Rept. 117–349), H5331 [7JN]

Financial Services and General Government Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (House) (H.R. 8254) (H. Rept. 117–393), H5923 [28JN]

Informing Consumers About Smart Devices Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 4081) (H. Rept. 117–509), H8219 [28SE]

Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 3843) (H. Rept. 117–493), H8118 [26SE]

Open App Markets Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 2710), S785 [17FE]

Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 4293), S7199 [14DE]

Protecting Indian Tribes From Scams Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 1880) (S. Rept. 117–112), S2583 [18MY]

Reporting Attacks From Nations Selected for Oversight and Monitoring Web Attacks and Ransomware From Enemies (RANSOMWARE) Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 4551) (H. Rept. 117–439), H7167 [26JY]

Request President To Provide Documents to House of Representatives Relative to Communications and Directives With FTC: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H. Res. 1261) (H. Rept. 117–511), H8219 [28SE]

Statements

Heritage Tech Policy Experts Applaud House Antitrust Package: Heritage Foundation, H8258 [29SE]

Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act: Executive Office of the President, H8255 [29SE]

——— Senators Klobuchar and Durbin, Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), H8259 [29SE]

Testimonies

Safeguarding American Consumers—Fighting Frauds and Scams During the Pandemic: William E. Kovacic, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House), H8260 [29SE]

Texts of

H. Res. 1124, consideration of H.R. 7688, Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act, H5127 [18MY]

H. Res. 1396, consideration of H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, H8170 [28SE]

H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, H8252 [29SE]

H.R. 4081, Informing Consumers About Smart Devices Act, H8153 [28SE], H8280 [29SE]

H.R. 4551, Reporting Attacks From Nations Selected for Oversight and Monitoring Web Attacks and Ransomware From Enemies (RANSOMWARE) Act, H7115 [26JY], H7200, H7226 [27JY]

H.R. 7688, Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act, H5179–H5181 [19MY]

S. 4409, Political Bias in Algorithm Sorting (Political BIAS) Emails Act, S2970 [15JN]

S. 5155, Proprietary Education Interagency Oversight Coordination Improvement Act, S6907–S6909 [30NO]