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Competitiveness Coalition Applauds Advancement of FSGG Appropriations Bill: “Home Run for Fiscal Sanity”
WASHINGTON – This week, the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) passed their appropriations bill for fiscal year 2026, putting it before the full committee. The Competitiveness Coalition applauded this crucial first step taken by subcommittee Chair Dave Joyce (R-OH) and other members of the panel in the below statement: …
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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WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the Canadian government rescinded its punitive Digital Services Tax on American technology companies just hours before the tax, retroactive to 2022, was set to take effect after President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…
