Author: gandersen@blackrockgrp.com
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Competitiveness Coalition Sounds The Alarm that Amazon Prime Day Could Soon Be A Thing of the Past
WASHINGTON – As more than 180 million Americans prepare to take advantage of Amazon’s Prime Day Deals, the Competitiveness Coalition today urged regulators and policymakers to rethink whether their misguided efforts to dismantle a homegrown company offering a wide-range of goods at affordable prices is truly in the best interest of consumers. Notably, Amazon’s famous…
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Competitiveness Coalition Praises President Trump For Sparing American Innovators From Canadian Digital Services Tax
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the Canadian government rescinded its punitive Digital Services Tax on American technology companies just hours before the tax, retroactive to 2022, was set to take effect after President Donald Trump stood up for our innovators and ended trade negotiations with Canada. The Competitiveness Coalition issued the below statement: “America scores a major…
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Competitiveness Coalition Warns of the Disastrous Impact of the Open App Markets Act (OAMA)
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, a group of U.S. Senators reintroduced the disastrous Open App Markets Act (OAMA), which would hurt American innovation, economic growth, and national security. First introduced in Congress in 2021, the OAMA would put users of app stores at risk of having sensitive information end up in the hands of unscrupulous actors while…
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ICYMI: Chair Scott Brown in RealClearMarkets: “It’s Time to ‘DOGE’ the Federal Trade Commission”
WASHINGTON – In a new op-ed for RealClearMarkets, Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown writes that it is time to “DOGE” the FTC by bringing antitrust enforcement under one roof in a common-sense move that will Make America Competitive Again and serve President Trump’s mission to usher America into a new Golden Age. “Elon Musk’s Department…
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Competitiveness Coalition Praises FTC Chair Ferguson For Taking Aim At The EU’s DMA
WASHINGTON – Today, Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown praised Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Andrew Ferguson’s outspoken criticism of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA): “Kudos to Chair Ferguson for highlighting the DMA’s ‘complex and burdensome rules’ that pose a serious and significant threat to American innovation,” said Chair Brown, a former United States…
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Brown: Conservatives ‘Greatly Appreciate’ Biden and Khan’s Reemergence
WASHINGTON – Following the return of former President Joe Biden and former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Lina Khan to the public stage, Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown slammed the duo for attempting to airbrush the past and reminded Americans how the failed ‘Bidenomics’ agenda hurt working families. In his first speech since departing the White…
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Chair Brown Slams Left’s New “Monopoly Busters” Caucus
Brown: “Now more than ever, the United States needs to foster innovation and economic growth, not hinder it.” WASHINGTON – Today, Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown sounded the alarm about a new effort led by leftist members of Congress to start a “Monopoly Busters” caucus, aimed at continuing the destructive agenda of the Biden-Harris antitrust…
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ICYMI: Chair Scott Brown in The Washington Reporter: “Three Biden Era Cases Trump’s FTC Should Reevaluate”
WASHINGTON – In a new op-ed for The Washington Reporter, Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown urges Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Andrew Ferguson to drop three of former Chair Lina Khan’s most anticompetitive and ideologically based cases. “Despite the turmoil at the FTC, conservatives have a majority, and the timing is ripe for Chair Andrew…
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Competitiveness Coalition Calls on Congress to Make America Competitive Again
In a letter to GOP leaders, the Coalition urges the reversal of Khan’s war on innovation & returning the FTC to its core mission of ensuring free and fair competition. WASHINGTON – Just one day after Vice President JD Vance delivered remarks on the administration’s priorities related to AI and innovation, the Competitiveness Coalition announced…
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Competitiveness Coalition Submits FOIA Request on Khan’s Collusion with Chinese Retailers
WASHINGTON – The Competitiveness Coalition announced today it has sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) records request to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Office of Inspector General regarding suspected engagement between former President Biden’s FTC Chair Lina Khan and Chinese online retailers Temu, Shein and Pinduoduo, as well as Temu’s parent company PDD Holdings.…